Ajuga

Instead, it enhances the tones and textures that are coming into their own as spring progresses into summer. Spring is the best time for ajuga planting in pots but in temperate regions you can also create a container garden with the plant in fall.freestar.queue.push(function()...

There's even a variegated form available.Ajuga ground cover spreads through runners, and as a member of the mint family, it can get out of control without proper care. However, when placed in strategic locations, its quick growth and mat-forming trait...

You'll succeed best at ajuga plant propagation if you select a sunny area or one that is in light shade for the plant's new home. Ajuga won't flower well in full shade.Ajuga plants do best in moist, fertile soil.

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Plant 6'' apart. Grows 3-4'' tall in partial sun to full shade. This Bronze variety, grows fast, is rugged and hardy, has beautiful bronze foliage and produces blue spike-like flowers in May-June.

Reptans is an evergreen groundcover that can grow in the shade of large trees where grass is hard to establish. Fantastic tricolored foliage in shades of creamy-white, rose-burgundy, and dark green make this ajuga different than all the others.

It also fits nicely into rock gardens and mixed container plantings. This attractive small-scale groundcover has glossy, near-black, scalloped leaves and a dense habit. Reptans is an evergreen groundcover that can grow in the shade of large trees where...

Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. We love this product and use it on all plants we install in our own gardens.

Hardiness: USDA Zones 3 - 9. Location: Ajuga is native to Europe, western Asia and Iran. The basal leaves are dar Burgundy Glow Ajuga 8 Plants - Carpet Bugle - Very Hardy - 1 3/4" Pots

Expect the blooms to last into late spring, transforming otherwise unremarkable garden spots into places of interest.But it's the foliage that provides multiseason appeal, both from its strong texture and fresh, pleasing color play.

If, after a few hours, the soil has not drained, it may not be an ideal location for Chocolate Chip Ajuga. If you are after a pop of deep color to cover your ground, this is the perennial for you! Picture dark-green foliage splashed with chocolate and...

They cover ground quickly, forming a weed-choking mat that replaces artificial mulches and adds dramatic color to the sunny to partly shaded garden. Black Scallop offers large, scallop-shaped leaves of such a deep purple that they gleam black even in...

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There's also a nice pale-lavender variety, a pink variety, and a few plants in white. Now that I'm a dandelion eater (my wife uses it in delicious vegetable pies), I couldn't help thinking about the food value of all that I was mowing down.

Occasionally, the experiment turned into a learning experience as the plant with potential turned out to be aggressive with few discernible positive qualities. These days, as I work alongside volunteers and interns, I realize how difficult it is to teach...

I'm talking about a group of less-common, low-growing groundcovers that have made a home in my own garden, smothering it with blooms in the summer and color and texture in the winter.

To tell the truth, I just haven't thought much about it. From looking so dirty. Or, you may choose to add “living mulch” to your perennial container plantings as in the first picture, above.

Purple perennials add deep to bright color to the landscape, and some species attract pollinating wildlife, such as hummingbirds, butterflies or bees, with their nectar. Plant species that bloom at different times during the growing season for constant...

Perennial anise hyssop or hummingbird mint varieties, like "Just Peachy" (Agastache auriantica "Just Peachy"), hardy in USDA zones 6 through 10, thrive in sunny, dry spots. While hummingbird mint attracts hummingbirds and butterflies, its fragrant leaves...

Bluish to purple blooms add to its charm in spring. The spotted foliage and purplish blooms will highlight shady areas, but be careful when planting spotted deadnettle, as it's known to become invasive under good growing conditions., this plant provides...

The foliage is partially evergreen. I grow it as an understory plant around my hostas and other taller shade plants to help keep the weeds at bay. Don't plant it near walkways and driveways where you use rock salt, and you won't have the problem.

Other members of the family are Acinos arvensis, Ajuga genevensis and reptans, Ballota nigra, Clinopodium vulgare, Galeobdolon luteu, Galeopsis ladanum, Glechoma hederacea, a number or Lamiums (album, amplexicaule, maculatum and purpureum), Lycopus europaeus,...

Its ferny green leaves provide a delicate texture to any setting and the flowers come in a variety of colors. I believe that you can use just about any cultivar in a similar fashion as long as the leaves aren't too greatly modified—there is one cultivar...

Ajuga have shiny leaves that form a tight and wonderful mass of color close to the ground.From early in the spring to very late in the summer, they will reward you with towering spikes of color, mostly blue but some white flowering varieties are in the...

It's large and fragrant and has a more noticeable color. It has even been made into a tea to use as an eyewash. We eventually found our way into a large yard behind a bakery. Some of the most edible and medicinal plants available to us are right at our...

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