Carpet Bugleweed Bronze Beauty

Monrovia s bronze beauty ajuga details and information.

Carpet bugleweed bronze beauty.

Bronze beauty ajuga carpets the garden with scalloped bronze tinged foliage. Short spikes of deep blue flowers are an added bonus in. 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.

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. Learn more about monrovia plants and best practices for best possible plant performance. Ajuga is known as bugle weed and the more ground hugging species are referred to as carpet bugles. A hardy low maintenance groundcover for shade and partial shade.

Ajuga bronze beauty does well in tubs and mixed containers as well as in rock gardens and borders. 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. 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. It features subtle spikes of sky blue flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late 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. Also known as bugleweed this is one of the most commonly planted ground covers for shady areas. Evergreen in most regions it is perfect for planting between stepping stones or in wall crevices. Ajuga are extremely hardy groundcovers that quickly form a dense carpet like mat.

The genus was assigned by linnaeus from the latin for not yoked which refers to a certain part. As is typical of herbaceous plants in the mint family ajuga has square stems and opposite or whorled leaves. Ajuga bronze beauty common name carpet bugle burgundy bronze foliage creates an illuminating backdrop for the blue flowering spikes that appear in spring. Spikes of blue flowers stand above dark foliage in late spring to early summer drawing hummingbirds to the garden.