I have Lamium galeobdolon. It spreads by runners that root where they touch down, like strawberries, and gets everywhere if you turn your back on it. It is fairly easy to dig out though, and it's saving grace is that it will grow in dry shade.
Aha, I've been wondering what to grow under a couple of big Western Red Cedars and a Christmas Tree (previous owners seem to have had a penchant for planting out their Christmas trees). Bone dry, total shade and covered in conifer needles. L. galeobdolon might do the trick! I was also pondering epimediums ...
I was going to ask about that one (galeobdolon). A friend in Ohio grew it and it appeared (in photos) to make a spreading but relatively tidy clump in her borders. She had clay soil I think and it was woodland garden. It was several inches tall in flower, and had pretty silvery markings in between each vein on the leaves, giving it a very shiney appearance? Yellow flowers.
I wonder if it behaved relatively well because of the conditions. She loved and it called it her Bumble bee plant, said the whole plants buzzed, it was always covered in bees.
***** Critical RiskThis species is listed on Schedule 9 of the
Wildlife and Countryside Act in England and Wales therefore, it is also
an offence to plant or otherwise cause to grow these species in the
wild.
***** Critical RiskThis species is listed on Schedule 9 of the
Wildlife and Countryside Act in England and Wales therefore, it is also
an offence to plant or otherwise cause to grow these species in the
wild.
Not quite sure what that comma is doing after "therefore", but I guess we get their meaning.
Slightly scary "banned" list - Virginia creeper, Cotoneaster horizontalis and Montbretia, for example, are on it!
@DampGardenMan We have an Epimedium perralderianum doing reasonably well under the edge of some old Leylandii. There are others you could try but that one is an easy one. The leaves stay nice and green . The new ones are very pretty. Yellow flowers in spring are a bonus. If you are kind to them and start them as well as you can and also try and water and feed them sometimes, it helps them to establish.
***** Critical RiskThis species is listed on Schedule 9 of the
Wildlife and Countryside Act in England and Wales therefore, it is also
an offence to plant or otherwise cause to grow these species in the
wild.
I live in the suburbs so it's unlikely to spread into the wild. In the 30 years I've had it I've never seen a seedling from it, just runners which are above ground so easy to see and pull off. It's not even got as far as next door, in all that time. I'll bear in mind that I should remove it before I get incapable of managing the garden (hopefully another 30 years).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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A friend in Ohio grew it and it appeared (in photos) to make a spreading but relatively tidy clump in her borders. She had clay soil I think and it was woodland garden.
It was several inches tall in flower, and had pretty silvery markings in between each vein on the leaves, giving it a very shiney appearance?
Yellow flowers.
I wonder if it behaved relatively well because of the conditions.
She loved and it called it her Bumble bee plant, said the whole plants buzzed, it was always covered in bees.
Slightly scary "banned" list - Virginia creeper, Cotoneaster horizontalis and Montbretia, for example, are on it!
Well spotted anyway.
We have an Epimedium perralderianum doing reasonably well under the edge of some old Leylandii. There are others you could try but that one is an easy one. The leaves stay nice and green . The new ones are very pretty. Yellow flowers in spring are a bonus. If you are kind to them and start them as well as you can and also try and water and feed them sometimes, it helps them to establish.
I had something similar in my previous garden, but I think that was Epimedium x versicolor 'Sulphureum'.