Caring for carpet bugle plants.
Carpet bugleweed ajuga.
Ajuga is typically grown in shady locations but will thrive just as well in the sun albeit more slowly making it much easier to control.
Reptans from the latin for creeping which describes its growth habit.
Selections with bronze or metallic tinted leaves keep color best in full sun.
This is a very popular ground cover.
There are over 50 different species this one named a.
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Once established ajuga plants requires little care.
Ajuga reptans is also a component of purple moor grass and rush pastures a biodiversity action.
The plant also likes fairly moist soil but is remarkably adaptable and will even tolerate a little drought.
Carpet bugleweed ajuga reptans.
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Ajuga reptans aka carpet bugleweed creeping bugleweed creeping carpet bugle sicklewort and carpenter s herb offers such striking texturally rich foliage in a broad range of colors including an almost black that gardeners are constantly seeking this perennial groundcover.
Ajuga reptans is valued as a wonderful spreader making a colorful groundcover which will thrive in shady areas where grass has difficulty growing.
It spreads quickly by runners making a mat of dark green leaves that grow 2 to 3 inches wide in full sun and 3 to 4 inches wide in part shade.
Fast growing ajuga reptans bronze beauty carpet bugle is a vigorous perennial prized for its rich blue flowers and contrasting bronze tinged leaves which quickly form a dense mat of attractive rosettes.
Blooming in may the beautiful flowers on our ajuga groundcover will have you thinking spring and summer.
It is known as bugle weed and the more ground hugging species were the carpet bugles.
Lawrence plant it is an herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family native to europe it is invasive in parts of north america.
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The genus was assigned by linnaeus from the latin for not yoked which refers to a certain part of the flower.
Ajuga reptans black scallop carpet bugle is a creeping perennial prized for its short spikes of fragrant deep blue flowers and very glossy near black scalloped leaves.
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