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How to Care Dead-nettles, Growing Dead-nettles, Caring for Dead-nettles
The dead-nettles genus, also known as dead nettles, is a low-maintenance plant category requiring moderate to full shade and well-draining, compost-rich soil for optimal growth. They are usually tolerant of a range of temperatures, but prefer cooler environments. Typical challenges include susceptibility to both root and stem rot if over-watered, and vulnerability to pests such as aphids and slugs. Seasonally, pruning in late winter or early spring can stimulate healthier growth, while limiting water in winter aids in preventing rot. Dead-nettles also exhibits a slowed growth rate during the hotter months.
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How to Water Dead-nettles?
Watering Frequency: Every week
Thriving in the understory of its native habitat, dead-nettles has adapted to conditions with moderate moisture and partial shade. This species is adept at maintaining hydration but prefers consistent soil moisture without being waterlogged. Accordingly, it benefits from watering every week. As a herbaceous perennial often found in temperate regions, dead-nettles balances its water needs with seasonal changes, reducing uptake during dormancy periods. Indoors, dead-nettles adds a touch of greenery year-round as an evergreen plant, requiring careful attention to watering to mimic its natural environment.
What Are the Sunlight Requirements for Dead-nettles?
Dead-nettles naturally thrives under the canopy of forests and woodlands, favoring dappled shade. Optimal lighting involves moderate to low-intensity light, with indirect or filtered sunlight being ideal. Prolonged exposure to bright, direct light can hinder dead-nettles's health, leading to foliage burn. Partial shade provides the necessary light for effective photosynthesis while protecting the plant from stress. This balance is crucial for dead-nettles's growth, flower production, and maintenance of its leaf variegation. Indoors, place dead-nettles near a window with sheer curtains; outdoors, plant under trees or taller shrubs to replicate its native woodland conditions.
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How to Propagate Dead-nettles?
Primary propagation methods for dead-nettles include seed sowing, cuttings, and division. Successful propagation is influenced by factors like light (partial shade preferred), temperature (cool to moderate), and well-drained soil. Dead-nettles are known for self-seeding and spreading through rhizomes, making them easier to propagate. Division should occur in spring or autumn. Propagation by cuttings can be done in the summer. This plant is relatively easy to propagate but may become invasive.
Steps:
- Choose a method (seeds, cuttings, division).
- For seeds, sow in spring.
- Cuttings should be taken in summer, rooted in moist soil.
- For division, split clumps in spring or fall, replanting immediately.
How to Plant Dead-nettles?
The dead-nettles genus, or dead-nettle, prefers well-drained, fertile, and moist soils, located in partially shaded areas. Begin by preparing the planting area, removing weeds, and incorporating organic matter. Plant dead-nettles at the same soil depth they were in their pots. Ensure the plants are spaced well, allowing proper aeration and growth. Initial care includes regular watering, avoiding waterlogged soil. While most dead-nettles species have similar planting requirements, it's essential to understand each one's specific needs.
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Scientific Classification of Dead-nettles
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Spotted dead nettle 'Pink Pewter'
Spotted dead nettle 'Pink Pewter' is so named because of the delicate pink color of its abundant late-spring flowers. The parent plant features darker violet-colored flowers that grow in far less profusion. This is a very simple to grow plant since it is highly resistant to pests and disease. It is a popular edging plant and also used for ground cover or to plant under shrubs.
White deadnettle
White deadnettle (Lamium album) earns its common name from the fact that it superficially resembles the stinging nettle, but does not sting. The young greens are edible and have many culinary uses. In spring, white deadnettle produces small white flowers that are very attractive to pollinators, particularly bumblebees.
Spotted dead nettle 'Beacon Silver'
Spotted dead nettle 'Beacon Silver' is a Spotted dead nettle cultivar with purple-pink flowers and showy, heart-shaped silvery leaves with dark green edges. Thanks to its spreading growth habit and the color combination of flowers and leaves, spotted dead nettle 'Beacon Silver' makes a popular groundcover.
Spotted dead nettle 'White Nancy'
Spotted dead nettle 'White Nancy', a cultivar of Spotted dead nettle, is prized among gardeners for its showy, heart-shaped, silvery-white leaves and small white flowers. The silvery leaves with dark green edges are the most distinguishing characteristic of spotted dead nettle 'White Nancy'. The cultivar is more compact and smaller in size than its parent plant, and it is therefore commonly used as groundcover.
Spotted Dead Nettles
Spotted Dead Nettles is most often known as a ground cover plant that does well in the shade. It has a habit of growing low to the ground in cold seasons and tall if conditions are warm. Although its name sounds sinister, the spotted Dead Nettles does not sting or burn like other nettles - hence the term ‘dead’ nettle. One cultivar of the species produces yellow leaves rather than the characteristic green-and-silver ones.
Spotted dead nettle 'Purple Dragon'
Spotted dead nettle 'Purple Dragon' is distinct for its large, bright, magenta flowers. A cultivar of Lamium maculatum, it gets its name from the unusual coloring and size of its blossoms, which are larger than those of other cultivars. Gardeners appreciate its suitability as ground cover in semi-shaded areas as well as its tolerance for drought.
Yellow archangel
Yellow archangel (Lamium galeobdolon) is a wildflower native to Europe. Yellow archangel is considered invasive in certain areas because it spreads rapidly. It is banned for sale in Washington state because it is considered a noxious weed in that region.
Balm-leaved archangel
Lamium orvala, known as balm-leaved archangel, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to central eastern Europe (Austria, Italy, Hungary, Former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Moldova).
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The dead-nettles genus, also known as dead nettles, is a low-maintenance plant category requiring moderate to full shade and well-draining, compost-rich soil for optimal growth. They are usually tolerant of a range of temperatures, but prefer cooler environments. Typical challenges include susceptibility to both root and stem rot if over-watered, and vulnerability to pests such as aphids and slugs. Seasonally, pruning in late winter or early spring can stimulate healthier growth, while limiting water in winter aids in preventing rot. Dead-nettles also exhibits a slowed growth rate during the hotter months.
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How to Water Dead-nettles?
Watering Frequency: Every week
Thriving in the understory of its native habitat, dead-nettles has adapted to conditions with moderate moisture and partial shade. This species is adept at maintaining hydration but prefers consistent soil moisture without being waterlogged. Accordingly, it benefits from watering every week. As a herbaceous perennial often found in temperate regions, dead-nettles balances its water needs with seasonal changes, reducing uptake during dormancy periods. Indoors, dead-nettles adds a touch of greenery year-round as an evergreen plant, requiring careful attention to watering to mimic its natural environment.
What Are the Sunlight Requirements for Dead-nettles?
Dead-nettles naturally thrives under the canopy of forests and woodlands, favoring dappled shade. Optimal lighting involves moderate to low-intensity light, with indirect or filtered sunlight being ideal. Prolonged exposure to bright, direct light can hinder dead-nettles's health, leading to foliage burn. Partial shade provides the necessary light for effective photosynthesis while protecting the plant from stress. This balance is crucial for dead-nettles's growth, flower production, and maintenance of its leaf variegation. Indoors, place dead-nettles near a window with sheer curtains; outdoors, plant under trees or taller shrubs to replicate its native woodland conditions.
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How to Propagate Dead-nettles?
Primary propagation methods for dead-nettles include seed sowing, cuttings, and division. Successful propagation is influenced by factors like light (partial shade preferred), temperature (cool to moderate), and well-drained soil. Dead-nettles are known for self-seeding and spreading through rhizomes, making them easier to propagate. Division should occur in spring or autumn. Propagation by cuttings can be done in the summer. This plant is relatively easy to propagate but may become invasive.
Steps:
- Choose a method (seeds, cuttings, division).
- For seeds, sow in spring.
- Cuttings should be taken in summer, rooted in moist soil.
- For division, split clumps in spring or fall, replanting immediately.
How to Plant Dead-nettles?
The dead-nettles genus, or dead-nettle, prefers well-drained, fertile, and moist soils, located in partially shaded areas. Begin by preparing the planting area, removing weeds, and incorporating organic matter. Plant dead-nettles at the same soil depth they were in their pots. Ensure the plants are spaced well, allowing proper aeration and growth. Initial care includes regular watering, avoiding waterlogged soil. While most dead-nettles species have similar planting requirements, it's essential to understand each one's specific needs.
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Attributes of Dead-nettles
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Scientific Classification of Dead-nettles
Types of Dead-nettles
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Spotted dead nettle 'Pink Pewter'
Spotted dead nettle 'Pink Pewter' is so named because of the delicate pink color of its abundant late-spring flowers. The parent plant features darker violet-colored flowers that grow in far less profusion. This is a very simple to grow plant since it is highly resistant to pests and disease. It is a popular edging plant and also used for ground cover or to plant under shrubs.
White deadnettle
White deadnettle (Lamium album) earns its common name from the fact that it superficially resembles the stinging nettle, but does not sting. The young greens are edible and have many culinary uses. In spring, white deadnettle produces small white flowers that are very attractive to pollinators, particularly bumblebees.
Spotted dead nettle 'Beacon Silver'
Spotted dead nettle 'Beacon Silver' is a Spotted dead nettle cultivar with purple-pink flowers and showy, heart-shaped silvery leaves with dark green edges. Thanks to its spreading growth habit and the color combination of flowers and leaves, spotted dead nettle 'Beacon Silver' makes a popular groundcover.
Spotted dead nettle 'White Nancy'
Spotted dead nettle 'White Nancy', a cultivar of Spotted dead nettle, is prized among gardeners for its showy, heart-shaped, silvery-white leaves and small white flowers. The silvery leaves with dark green edges are the most distinguishing characteristic of spotted dead nettle 'White Nancy'. The cultivar is more compact and smaller in size than its parent plant, and it is therefore commonly used as groundcover.
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Ocimum
Ocimum are a group of strongly aromatic, and often flavorful, herbs and shrubs. Many species within the genus are of tremendous culinary importance. Some species are used as herbs, and others are used as teas. Ocimum have such an influence all over the world that many cultures consider these species to be sacred and use them in religious rituals.
Tetradenia
Tetradenia is native to Africa, including Madagascar.
Rostrinucula
Rostrinucula is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae. It has two known species, both endemic to China.
Sphenodesme
Sphenodesme is native to southern China, the Indian Subcontinent, Indo-China and Malesia.
Volkameria
Volkameria are flowering plants that grow along coastlines in most continents across the globe. These plants are characterized by a visibly widened stem at the node, or the area where the floral bud forms, and by four-part fruits that are black or brown. Many volkameria are fragrant flowers grown for ornamental cultivation.
Colquhounia
Colquhounia is a genus of about six species of evergreen or semi-evergreen shrubs or subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. They are native to the Himalaya and southwestern China south to Peninsular Malaysia. They are growing to 1 to 3 m tall, rarely to 4 m. The aromatic leaves are finely toothed and borne in opposite pairs on the square stems. The flowers are tubular, two-lipped, and carried on terminal spikes.
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