Carpet Bugleweed Bronze Beauty

Ajuga bronze beauty does well in tubs and mixed containers as well as in rock gardens and borders.

Carpet bugleweed bronze beauty.

Ajuga bronze beauty common name carpet bugle burgundy bronze foliage creates an illuminating backdrop for the blue flowering spikes that appear in spring. 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. Plants quickly form a low carpet of medium sized rounded leaves in an attractive bronzy brown shade. Also known as bugleweed this is one of the most commonly planted ground covers for shady areas.

Ajuga are extremely hardy groundcovers that quickly form a dense carpet like mat. Ajuga is known as bugle weed and the more ground hugging species are referred to as carpet bugles. Bronze beauty ajuga carpets the garden with scalloped bronze tinged foliage. Ajuga reptans bronze beauty carpet bugle.

Ajuga reptans is valued as a wonderful spreader making a colorful groundcover which will thrive in shady areas where grass has difficulty growing. 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. Spikes of blue flowers stand above dark foliage in late spring to early summer drawing hummingbirds to the garden. As is typical of herbaceous plants in the mint family ajuga has square stems and opposite or whorled leaves.

Learn more about monrovia plants and best practices for best possible plant performance. 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. 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. Evergreen in most regions it is perfect for planting between stepping stones or in wall crevices.

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. Edge shaded beds and borders or mass beneath specimen trees in the woodland garden. A hardy low maintenance groundcover for shade and partial shade. It features subtle spikes of sky blue flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late spring.