When you think of a garden, it's easy to picture the show-stopping stars. Whether it's those beautiful spring annuals, the perfectly pruned shrubs, or the bountiful fruit trees, some plants just have ...

A question for Dan Gill: We have live oak trees shading our front yard, and we have camellias, sasanquas, azaleas and some variegated brake ferns already established there. We were interested in ...

A visually interesting perennial for a difficult shady spot is Purple Dragon Lamium or spotted deadnettle (Lamium maculatum ‘Purple Dragon’). Purple Dragon is a spreading groundcover with one-inch ...

A 'Purple Dragon' ground cover in full bloom. - Kabar/Shutterstock Finding the perfect low-growing plant that is easy to tend and fits your landscape needs is challenging, but one popular flowering ...

Lamium, Spotted Dead Nettle, ‘White Nancy’Lamium maculatum ‘White Nancy’ Lamium, Spotted Dead Nettle, ‘White Nancy’Lamium maculatum ‘White Nancy’ ‘White Nancy’ sparkles in all-green gardens or shady ...

The inspiration for vanSanden's tattoo is a plant he discovered in Montague in 1999 called the Lamium maculatum "Purple Dragon." He's had five of them for a long time. Recently, the Whitehall native ...