Sue wrote:
"John McMillan" wrote
Lamium Maculatum?
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...maculatum.html

Or possibly Lamiastrum galeobdolon (Yellow Archangel), which puts out
long runners and is extremely invasive. I heard someone refer to it
once as Lamium Galloping-along which suits it very well.

The variegated version does have a very metallic looking leaf.
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...leobdolon.html


Yep, that's the chappy!

Is it native or has it come from someone's garden?

I ask because the ground where it is seems to be very fertile, I have
occasionally (before we got our compost bins) thrown the odd plant over the
fence which I didn't want on the compost heap and they have grown, namely
three Yuccas, one from just a thick root which I dug out, the others from
shoots which refuse to disintegrate in the normal way.
The other surprise is an old wiry hebe bush which has survived on top of a
rotten log for at leat 12 years.

the ground is just brambles, nettles and hawthorns and I like it that way.