Pink Pewter Lamium - Spotted Dead Nettle Plant - 4 inch pot

One of the best choices for a tough yet showy perennial ground-cover. This selection forms a spreading patch of small silver leaves with a narrow green edge. This variety has beautiful oval, pewter-silver leaves with dark green edges and short spiked pink flowers that rise above the silver foliage from late spring, May, all the way into the cooler fall weather, September! Ideal for use in containers, borders, edging or as showy groundcover. 'Pink Pewter' quick spreads to form a colorful groundcover it prefers moist, well-drained soil in partial shade. Just be careful with over watering.

Pink Pewter Spotted Dead Nettle will grow to be about 8 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. Because of its spreading habit of growth, it is ideally suited for use as a 'spiller' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination; plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.