Blooming in may the beautiful flowers on our ajuga groundcover will have you thinking spring and summer.
Carpet bugle perennial.
It is known as bugle weed and the more ground hugging species were the carpet bugles.
The genus was assigned by linnaeus from the latin for not yoked which refers to a certain part of the flower.
Unless it s really dry ajuga can usually sustain itself with normal rainfall and there s no need to fertilize this plant.
Plants form a distinctive mound of rounded green leaves bearing short upright spikes of deep blue flowers in spring.
This garden perennial falls into the mint family along with all the useful herbs.
Ajuga reptans is also a component of purple moor grass and rush pastures a biodiversity action.
Once established ajuga plants requires little care.
Of course if it s located in the sun you may need to water it more often.
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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Caring for carpet bugle plants.
This garden perennial falls into the mint family along with all the useful herbs.
Unlike the more typical ground covering selections of bugleweed this species is grown more as a clumping edging plant without the same tendency to spread.
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Ajuga reptans is commonly known as bugle blue bugle bugleherb bugleweed carpetweed carpet bugleweed and common bugle and traditionally but less commonly as st.
Blooming in late spring to early summer the flowers rise above the contrasting spreading rosettes formed by the leaves putting on an eye catching display.
The genus was assigned by linnaeus from the latin for not yoked which refers to a certain part of the flower.