Carpet Bugle Bronze Beauty

An excellent spreading groundcover featuring deep blue flower spikes and attractive contrasting bronze tinged green foliage.

Carpet bugle bronze beauty.

Bronze beauty ajuga carpets the garden with scalloped bronze tinged foliage. Edge shaded beds and borders or mass beneath specimen trees in the woodland garden. 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. Ajuga reptans is valued as a wonderful spreader making a colorful groundcover which will.

Ajuga bronze beauty common name carpet bugle burgundy bronze foliage creates an illuminating backdrop for the blue flowering spikes that appear in spring. Deep purple bronze foliage in full sun blue flowers. 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. Ajuga reptans bronze beauty carpet bugle 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.

The basal leaves are dark green and oblong or spoon shaped 3 5 in 7 6 12 7 cm long and 1 2 in 2 5 5 1 cm wide. As is typical of herbaceous plants in the mint family ajuga has square stems and opposite or whorled leaves. Can be walked on mowed over and generally abused. 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.

Item crop image size. A hardy low maintenance groundcover for shade and partial shade. The fruit is not ornamentally significant. Ajuga reptans bronze beauty bronze beauty bugleweed.

Ajuga reptans bronze beauty. Ajuga reptans bronze beauty. Ajuga bronze beauty does well in tubs and mixed containers as well as in rock gardens and borders. Spikes of blue flowers stand above dark foliage in late spring to early summer drawing hummingbirds to the garden.

Tuck into rock walls or gardens between stepping stones or between shrubs in borders. Also known as bugleweed this is one of the most commonly planted ground covers for shady areas. Plants quickly form a low carpet of medium sized rounded leaves in an attractive bronzy brown shade. Moist well drained flower color.

It features subtle spikes of sky blue flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late spring. Ajuga reptans is valued as a wonderful spreader making a colorful groundcover which will thrive in shady areas where grass has difficulty growing. Stem leaves are a little smaller. 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.