Carpet Bugleweed Planting Around Frnce

Caring for carpet bugle plants.

Carpet bugleweed planting around frnce. If your garden has a shady spot where other flowers won t grow fill it with ajuga a colorful and low maintenance ground cover. Ajuga reptans is also a component of purple moor grass and rush pastures a biodiversity action. Unless it s really dry ajuga can usually sustain itself with normal rainfall and there s no need to fertilize this plant. The genus was assigned by linnaeus from the latin for not yoked which refers to a certain part of the flower.

Lawrence plant it is an herbaceous flowering plant in the mint family native to europe it is invasive in parts of north america. 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 also known. Reptans from the latin for creeping which describes its growth habit.

Once established ajuga plants requires little care. The plant also likes fairly moist soil but is remarkably adaptable and will even tolerate a little drought. 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. Ajuga reptans is commonly known as bugle blue bugle bugleherb bugleweed carpetweed carpet bugleweed and common bugle and traditionally but less commonly as st.

How to plant ajugas in a flower garden.