Carpet Bugle Ground Cover

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Carpet bugle ground cover.

Hardy in zones 4 to 10. For pricing and availability. 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. Selections with bronze or metallic tinted leaves keep color best in full sun.

The flowers of bugleweed are normally bluish to purple but they can be found in white as well. The blossoms rise slightly above the foliage of tiny glossy oval leaves which are chocolate with burgundy highlights. And in addition to the traditional green foliage this ground cover can also provide the landscape with stunning copper or purple colored foliage too making it great for adding year round interest. 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.

Low growing herbaceous perennial sending out creeping stolens in or on top of the soil and bearing low spikes of blue white or variegated colored flowers in may june. Bugleweed forms a dense ground cover topped with pretty purple blue flower spikes in spring. Japanese spurge in tray l4289 item 480672. Ground cover shade border.

For pricing and availability. This is an extremely hardy perennial. Forms a dense carpet like mat even in shady areas. This variety doesn t spread as aggressively as other bugleweeds.

Black scallop offers dark leaves that develop the darkest hue in full sun. Tuck it into light levels from full shade to full sun. Bugleweed ajuga reptans also called common bugleweed is a fast growing herbaceous perennial ground cover the species name reptans means creeping. Ajuga ajuga bugle weed carpet bugle labiatae a.

Commonly called carpet bugle it can be walked on mowed over and generally abused. Ajuga s lush waxy foliage offered in several shades hugs the soil resisting weeds to form a dense groundcover. 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. Carpet bugleweed ajuga reptans.

Shorter flower spikes up to 5 blanket the plants in may and june. Beautiful in containers around shrubs or between stepping stones.