Red Nancy Lamium

Lamium maculatum ‘Red Nancy’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-8b (9?) Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen to Semi-Evergreen Groundcover

Height or Length at Maturity: 6″

Width at Maturity: 18 inches or more
Spacing: 15″ apart for mass planting

Growth Habit / Form: Spreading/Trailing

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: Rosy Red buds open to Rosy Purple flower
Flower Type: Single, in clusters

Flower Size: Small in 2-3″ clusters
Flowering Period: Spring to Early Summer

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Silvery White edged in Deep Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Sun Needs: Part Shade to Full Shade, Morning Sun with Afternoon Shade or Filtered Sun

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Moist But Well Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Foot Traffic

Description

A perfect and very hardy perennial groundcover perfect for brightening up a shady to partly sunny spot, Red Nancy Lamium is a vigorous grower that forms a carpet of stunning silvery-white leaves in garden beds or to cascade over the pots rim in container gardens. As an extra-added bonus, in spring to early summer clusters of cute, rosy red buds open to rosy purple flowers that are perched just above and contrast beautifully with the foliage. A perfect selection for white theme gardens!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 4 to 6 inches tall and spreading 18 inches or more to form a solid patch, Red Nancy Lamium can be grown in garden beds or as a solo or in combination with other shade-loving plants in container gardens. It is ideal for use as a border along paths and walkways, as a groundcover to fill in around shrubs in home foundation plantings and woodland areas, as an underplanting for shrubs and trees, tucked around boulders in rock gardens, or as an accent and spiller plant in combination container gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 12 to 15 inches apart for mass plantings and solid borders

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Growing Preferences

Red Nancy Lamium is very easy to grow in most any most but well-drained soil of average fertility and part shade. With consistently moist soil it will tolerate full sun, even in the South, but we think it looks and performs its best with some shade, especially in the afternoons. As with many other plants, a constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic. Established plants growing in shade have moderate drought tolerance. It’s soft stems make it very easy to clip to keep in bounds.

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These beautiful plants came well packed and in perfect shape. They’re already growing and spreading.———————————————————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG