Carpet Bugle Bronze Beauty

Ajuga reptans is valued as a wonderful spreader making a colorful groundcover which will thrive in shady areas where grass has difficulty growing.

Carpet bugle bronze beauty.

Can be walked on mowed over and generally abused. As is typical of herbaceous plants in the mint family ajuga has square stems and opposite or whorled leaves. Forms a dense carpet like mat even in shady areas. Bronze beauty ajuga carpets the garden with scalloped bronze tinged foliage.

Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about ajuga bugle bugleweed carpet bugle ajuga reptans bronze beauty supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at dave. Also known as bugleweed this is one of the most commonly planted ground covers for shady areas. Ajuga reptans is valued as a wonderful spreader making a colorful groundcover which will. Ajuga reptans bronze beauty carpet bugle 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.

Ajuga are extremely hardy groundcovers that quickly form a dense carpet like mat. The fruit is not ornamentally significant. Bronze beauty ajuga is a low growing evergreen perennial 6 10 in 15 2 25 4 cm tall which forms a dense matlike groundcover as it spreads along underground stolons. Stem leaves are a little smaller.

12 18 in soil conditions. A hardy low maintenance groundcover for shade and partial shade. Ajuga reptans bronze beauty. Bronze beauty bugleweed s attractive small crinkled round leaves emerge dark brown in spring turning forest green in color with prominent deep purple tips the rest of the year.

It features subtle spikes of sky blue flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late spring. Tuck into rock walls or gardens between stepping stones or between shrubs in borders. Ajuga bronze beauty common name carpet bugle burgundy bronze foliage creates an illuminating backdrop for the blue flowering spikes that appear in spring. Item crop image size.

Spikes of blue flowers stand above dark foliage in late spring to early summer drawing hummingbirds to the garden. 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. Ajuga reptans bronze beauty. Moist well drained flower color.

The basal leaves are dark green and oblong or spoon shaped 3 5 in 7 6 12 7 cm long and 1 2 in 2 5 5 1 cm wide. Ajuga reptans bronze beauty bronze beauty bugleweed. Plants quickly form a low carpet of medium sized rounded leaves in an attractive bronzy brown shade. Deep purple bronze foliage in full sun blue flowers.