Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 273) Lamium maculatum “Shell Pink”

A trouble-free ground cover that I added to the garden decades ago, my Lamium clone looks its best in cool weather, so by mid-spring, it is a lovely blanket of green and white with attractive pink flowers.  In autumn, before the first frosts, it again looks fresh and lively.

This plant is very forgiving—I don’t water it in the summer on any regular basis and I accidentally mow it fairly often in the spring.  It doesn’t seem to care about any of that and just keeps covering the ground and looking great.

My future plans for this plant are to peel off some rooted divisions and pot them up for giveaways and sales.