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If you go weeding in the garden, you might stop a moment before pulling up the flowering red deadnettle (Lamium purpureum )  –  maybe it is worth keeping it, as a garden plant? The purple-violet flowerhead of the deadnettle – quite similar to the cut-leaved deadnettle (Lamium hybridum) in the photo – is decorative, and another good thing is that it flowers all through the summer until October. Its relative, the white deadnettle, we have all tasted  – who hasn’t, as a child, tried to suck the sweet nectar from the white flowers to satisfy one’s sweet craving. The white deadnettle isn’t however as pretty as the red deadnettle as a garden plant, its flowers are hidden by the leaves.