Description

Introduce striking beauty to your garden with Arum italicum, commonly known as Lords & Ladies. This hardy perennial features distinctive arrow-shaped leaves, green with striking white veins, adding texture and visual interest to your landscape throughout the growing season. As it matures, the plant produces unique greenish-white flowers followed by dramatic columns of vibrant red berries, providing seasonal interest well into fall.

Key Features:

• Arrow-shaped, green leaves with elegant white veins that add a bold design element to gardens
• Unique greenish-white flowers, followed by striking columns of red berries
• Hardy perennial, perfect for adding texture to shaded or woodland areas
• Adds year-round interest with foliage, flowers, and berries
• Low-maintenance and ideal for naturalistic gardens, borders, or containers

Arum italicum ‘Lords & Ladies’ is an eye-catching plant that brings both seasonal beauty and structure to your garden, making it a perfect addition to shaded or woodland settings.

Repotting or planting

9cm marginal plants require potting into a larger mesh basket. Place in a pond no deeper than 1/3 maximum recommended planting depth to allow the plants to establish. 1ltr marginal plants do not require repotting, place in the pond no deeper than 1/2 maximum recommended planting depth to allow the plants to establish. 3ltr and 5ltr plants do not require repotting, as they are larger more established plants they can be placed up to the maximum recommended depth. There is no need to remove the mesh basket.

Care instructions

Little maintenance is required. Trim just above the water surface after foliage has died back in Autumn to tidy.

Colour

Greenish-white

Growth rate

Slow

Flowers

May-Sept

Sun/shade

Full sun to part shade

Native

Season

Spring, Summer

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min –Max

30-50

Depth Min-Max

0-8