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Charlie Pridham wrote in message
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Symphytum grandiflorum, Geranium maccrorhizzum, Geranium 'Claridge
Druce'
Lamium (cant remember the second name - we call it the Hobgoblin!) Viola

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)


Charlie,
I imagine you mean Lamium galeobdolon, the Yellow Archangel. Love the
Hobgoblin tag, though!.
Spider


That's the one! bit of a menace really but quite pretty when it flowers.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

In article ,
Charlie Pridham wrote:

My Vinca major 'Alba is 15' into a quince tree and I have to take the
strimmer to it when it blocks the gateway, its flowering at present (when
all is forgiven!)

Well, what do you expect in the subtropics? :-)

Boggle. I didn't know that the shoots would grow 15' without an
intermediate layer. I cut mine back to the ground last autumn,
because it had become fairly impenetrable - it has started flowering
and the flowers are sparser but more visible.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Dear All,

Thanks for all your suggestions. As I have quite a few shrubs which I don't
want overgrown I'm going to get Vinca minor when it stops raining!
Lamium galeobdolon seems a bit rampant and I'd fear for my life with that in
my small garden. But it has Medicinal uses though. Quote "The herb is
antispasmodic, astringent, diuretic, expectorant, styptic and
vasoconstrictor" The latter use must be for a "slippery snake" surely.

Regards,
Ken Maughan

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In article ,
Charlie Pridham wrote:

My Vinca major 'Alba is 15' into a quince tree and I have to take the
strimmer to it when it blocks the gateway, its flowering at present (when
all is forgiven!)

Well, what do you expect in the subtropics? :-)

Boggle. I didn't know that the shoots would grow 15' without an
intermediate layer. I cut mine back to the ground last autumn,
because it had become fairly impenetrable - it has started flowering
and the flowers are sparser but more visible.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Makes quite a nice small climber, so far I have only allowed the white one
to do it but I guess the other majors would. are you able to grow the other
vincas based on V.difformis like 'Jenny Pimm'? very pretty but not alas
quite so rampant.
--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)

In article ,
"Charlie Pridham" writes:
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| Makes quite a nice small climber, so far I have only allowed the white one
| to do it but I guess the other majors would. are you able to grow the other
| vincas based on V.difformis like 'Jenny Pimm'? very pretty but not alas
| quite so rampant.

Never tried it, but I doubt it. We get below -5 even in warm
winters. I grow V. major "oxyloba" and a double blue V. minor.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Sacha writes

We have a variegated Lamium with bright pink flowers but have never known
the name of it as it was given to Ray. It's very dramatic and will take
deep shade and if anyone knows the name, we'd be very grateful!

My infallible filing system* reveals:

Lamium maculatum Beacon Silver

Silver foliage but variegated, bright pink flowers, loves shade and
damp. Any good?

* I collect all the labels and stuff them in the top drawer of the desk
along with various lists of plants from places. When vital or essential,
I browse through until I find what I need. Useful search this time as I
also discovered a lost plan of the house extension which I wanted to
build....


--
David

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:36:59 +0100, "Ken Maughan"
wrote:

Can anyone suggest a quick-growing, flowering, ground cover plant ( Not
seeds as there's quite a few cats around here and they LOVE my soil.). My
garden is north-facing, backs onto an old railway bank with dark blue-grey
clay soil (although I've added a few trailers of topsoil to help). The slope
if fairly steep approx a 1 in 3 incline and 20 ft by 11ft in size, and
there's a sycamore tree to one side shading half the garden.
Any suggestions would be most welcome.

The white-flowered form of Oxalis oregana. (The pink-flowered form has
bigger, better flowers, but isn't as vigorous.)

Thanks in anticipation

You'll retract those thanks once this thug of thugs takes the bit in
its teeth and covers the ground beneath a green tide.

--
Rodger Whitlock
Victoria, BC, Canada
to send email, change atlantic to pacific
and invalid to net

Sacha writes

We have a variegated Lamium with bright pink flowers but have never known
the name of it as it was given to Ray. It's very dramatic and will take
deep shade and if anyone knows the name, we'd be very grateful!

Dave writes
My infallible filing system* reveals:

Lamium maculatum Beacon Silver

Silver foliage but variegated, bright pink flowers, loves shade and
damp. Any good?

* I collect all the labels and stuff them in the top drawer of the desk
along with various lists of plants from places. When vital or essential,
I browse through until I find what I need. Useful search this time as I
also discovered a lost plan of the house extension which I wanted to
build....


Actually looking at them now the new shoots are light green with only
the outline of the silver variegation, and they do have a strong false-
nettle-like pink flower. Self seeding into many shady dampish places.
--
David

On 2/5/05 11:29, in article ,
"Dave" wrote:

Sacha writes

We have a variegated Lamium with bright pink flowers but have never known
the name of it as it was given to Ray. It's very dramatic and will take
deep shade and if anyone knows the name, we'd be very grateful!

Dave writes
My infallible filing system* reveals:

Lamium maculatum Beacon Silver

Silver foliage but variegated, bright pink flowers, loves shade and
damp. Any good?

* I collect all the labels and stuff them in the top drawer of the desk
along with various lists of plants from places. When vital or essential,
I browse through until I find what I need. Useful search this time as I
also discovered a lost plan of the house extension which I wanted to
build....


Actually looking at them now the new shoots are light green with only
the outline of the silver variegation, and they do have a strong false-
nettle-like pink flower. Self seeding into many shady dampish places.
Thanks, Dave. I'll go and look at ours very closely when it stops raining
for 5 minutes!

The message
from Dave contains these words:
Sacha writes

We have a variegated Lamium with bright pink flowers but have never known
the name of it as it was given to Ray. It's very dramatic and will take
deep shade and if anyone knows the name, we'd be very grateful!

Dave writes
My infallible filing system* reveals:

Lamium maculatum Beacon Silver

Silver foliage but variegated, bright pink flowers, loves shade and
damp. Any good?

* I collect all the labels and stuff them in the top drawer of the desk
along with various lists of plants from places. When vital or essential,
I browse through until I find what I need. Useful search this time as I
also discovered a lost plan of the house extension which I wanted to
build....


Actually looking at them now the new shoots are light green with only
the outline of the silver variegation, and they do have a strong false-
nettle-like pink flower. Self seeding into many shady dampish places.

Hum. I have some of those, I think, with yellow flowers. A swap might be
exchanged sometime?

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

I'll go and look at ours very closely when it stops raining
for 5 minutes!

Shed

Please! Send some of that rain over here to East Angular - my water
buttress nearly empathy.

/Shed

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

On 2/5/05 11:29, in article ,
"Dave" Sacha writes

We have a variegated Lamium with bright pink flowers but have never known
the name of it as it was given to Ray. It's very dramatic and will take
deep shade and if anyone knows the name, we'd be very grateful!

Dave writes
My infallible filing system* reveals:

Lamium maculatum Beacon Silver

Silver foliage but variegated, bright pink flowers, loves shade and
damp. Any good?

* I collect all the labels and stuff them in the top drawer of the desk
along with various lists of plants from places. When vital or essential,
I browse through until I find what I need. Useful search this time as I
also discovered a lost plan of the house extension which I wanted to
build....

wrote:

Actually looking at them now the new shoots are light green with only
the outline of the silver variegation, and they do have a strong false-
nettle-like pink flower. Self seeding into many shady dampish places.

Sacha writes
Thanks, Dave. I'll go and look at ours very closely when it stops raining
for 5 minutes!

Actually my descriptions are so hopeless I've just taken a photo and
reduced it to send via e-mail, so you can see what it is like.
Christopher is gradually showing me what my camera can do (I did read
the instructions ages ago!) and so now I have to demonstrate I have the
technology to deal with the image on the PC and e-mail :-)
--
David

The message
from Dave contains these words:
Sacha writes

We have a variegated Lamium with bright pink flowers but have never known
the name of it as it was given to Ray. It's very dramatic and will take
deep shade and if anyone knows the name, we'd be very grateful!

Dave writes
My infallible filing system* reveals:

Lamium maculatum Beacon Silver

Silver foliage but variegated, bright pink flowers, loves shade and
damp. Any good?

* I collect all the labels and stuff them in the top drawer of the desk
along with various lists of plants from places. When vital or essential,
I browse through until I find what I need. Useful search this time as I
also discovered a lost plan of the house extension which I wanted to
build....


Actually looking at them now the new shoots are light green with only
the outline of the silver variegation, and they do have a strong false-
nettle-like pink flower. Self seeding into many shady dampish places.

Jaques d'Alltrades writes

Hum. I have some of those, I think, with yellow flowers. A swap might be
exchanged sometime?

Yes, quite possibly. Are we still in the business of doing urgmeets? If
so I might tentatively suggest my place as its usually quiet, I have
parking, and there are lots of things folk can add / comment on?
--
David
First chiltern SW of Cambridge, alt 450' pop 224

The message
from Dave contains these words:

Hum. I have some of those, I think, with yellow flowers. A swap might be
exchanged sometime?

Yes, quite possibly. Are we still in the business of doing urgmeets? If
so I might tentatively suggest my place as its usually quiet, I have
parking, and there are lots of things folk can add / comment on?

No car ATM - well, not on the road, anyroadup.

Give it time...

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/