One of the dead nettles possibly?

Lamium maculatum of some variety - maybe Beacon Silver?

Flippin eck you guys were quick - i just had a look at Lamium Maculatum - yep that seems to be it!
brilliant work both - blessed be and thank you! :)

**it might be red dead nettle Lumium purpurea!**

Ah, snap, sort of MG - Nickynook, deadnettle is Lamium and the one you've got is the basic L. maculatum, not Beacon Silver.

Ha ha, not that quick - I had to think about it for a good 5 minutes before something came to mind!

Five minutes eh? That long! ;) would have taken me five weeks to track it down!

Well, I'm sure whatever it is you do for a living has made you skilled in that area as well - don't ask me a question about car engines or rocket science, no idea, lol

Confess it shouted dead nettle (Lamium) to me - not sure why and agree with Bamboo that you will have your own skills and knowledge.

ditto too for me ladies.

:-) SBG

Well, i hope it flourishes where it now is and gets the bees in!
Thank you all!

It certainly 'should' pull the pollinators in! Was sitting outside earlier watching a ginger bottomed bee feeding on the pollen of a Sedum :-)

is that the technical name! :S - i saw one of those yesterday, and today another bee has been knocking at the door of the still closed peony buds!

Technical term no - lol, means I don't know my bees well enough to name properly. Between flowers, birds, insects I simply can't remember them all - so ginger bottomed, lol! Distinctly different to the black bottomed one that appeared a short while after :-) Why their bottoms - that is the easiest bit for me to see. Oh and if someone on GoY can point me at an on-line site to i.d. bees I would be extremely grateful.