Lamium orvala
(Giant Dead Nettle)

Family - Lamiaceae
Category - Perennial
Origin - Southern Europe
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn
Hardiness - H7
Height - 50cm
Width - 45cm
Location - The Woodland Walk

Description: A clump-forming, herbaceous Perennial with an upright habit. Mid to dark green leaves are ovate to heart-shaped and have jagged, coarsely toothed margins. Hooded 2-lipped flowers are a dusky shade of reddish-pink with the lower petal of each Bloom speckled with white. The Blooms are held in whorls and produced between the leaf pairs in late spring and early summer. Attractive to bees.

Flower:

Hooded 2-lipped flowers are an unusual shade of reddish-pink. The lower petal of each bloom is speckled with white. The blooms are held in whorls and produced between the pairs of leaves in May and June.

Flower colour: Pink

Flower shape: Hooded 2-lipped flowers in whorls

Flowering time: May, June

Foliage:

Mid to dark green leaves are ovate to Cordate in shape and have Dentate margins. The leaves are held in opposite pairs on the vertical, square stems.

Foliage Senescence: Deciduous

Foliage Shape: Ovate to cordate

Propagation:

Division

Cultivation:

Best in partial shade to shade in moisture retentive soil that is well drained.