Carpet Bugleweed Ground Cover

However when placed in strategic locations its quick growth and mat forming trait can provide instant coverage with only a few plants.

Carpet bugleweed ground cover.

Good drainage is essential lest carpet bugleweed fall victim to a disease called crown rot. Tuck it into light levels from full shade to full sun. Selections with bronze or metallic tinted leaves keep color best in full sun. This variety doesn t spread as aggressively as other bugleweeds.

It is known as bugle weed and the more ground hugging species were the carpet bugles. Leaves may be green bronze dark purple or variegated green white and pink. Arizona california colorado idaho montana nevada new mexico oregon utah washington wyoming alaska hawaii puerto rico. Space new plants 6 inches apart in shade to part shade.

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This is a very popular ground cover. 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. Reptans from the latin for creeping which describes its growth habit. The genus was assigned by linnaeus from the latin for not yoked which refers to a certain part of the flower.

Ajuga reptans also known as carpet bugle or bugleweed needs shade. They stand on 6 inch spikes that rise above tufts of foliage about 3 4 inches tall. Bugleweed ajuga reptans also called common bugleweed is a fast growing herbaceous perennial ground cover the species name reptans means creeping although it produces beautiful flower spikes and is available in several different cultivars that work well in landscaping it can also make quite a nuisance of itself through its aggressive spreading via underground runners called stolens. Hardy in zones 4 to 10.

Black scallop offers dark leaves that develop the darkest hue in full sun. Carpet bugleweed ajuga reptans. Bugleweed forms a dense ground cover topped with pretty purple blue flower spikes in spring. Phone phone business hours mon fri.

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.