Lamb's Ear 'Silver Carpet'

Lamb's Ear 'Silver Carpet' Overview

Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carpet' is a softly hairy cultivar with woolly, silvery-white leaves that form a dense, fuzzy carpet. A vigorous perennial evergreen, Lamb's Ear is a popular and distinctive ground cover plant. It sometimes produces upright spikes of whorled, silver-grey flowers. It likes a position of full sun and well-drained soil, so avoid planting in locations with excessive winter wet. It is drought-tolerant and can be used to good effect as edging for dry beds and borders, patio pots and it is suited to courtyard and coastal gardens. It is an excellent plant for suppressing weeds. This cultivar is part of the RHS “Plants for Pollinators” initiative that showcases plants which support pollinator populations by providing ample amounts of nectar and/or pollen. Stachys byzantina 'Silver Carpet' is particularly attractive to the solitary wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) that uses the fine hairs from the foliage to use as nesting material.