Bronze Beauty Ajuga
| ajuga | bugleweed |
It is an perennial, flowering herbaceous, see how the Bronze beauty ajuga looks like in the garden and landscape.
Bronze Beauty Ajuga is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. Other winter zone scales for planting this ajuga are ANBG: 1, 2, 3; RHS: H7, H6, H5, H4, H3; PHZ: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a.
Ajuga details
| Plant type | herbaceous, groundcover, flowering, border, containers | ||||||||
| Life cycle | perennial | ||||||||
| Sun needs | shade, full sun, part sun | ||||||||
| Growth habit | trailing, spreading, mat-forming | ||||||||
| Flowering period | spring | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 8 sm - 10 sm | ||||||||
| Spread | 45 sm | ||||||||
| Spacing | 20 sm - 30 sm for groundcover planting | ||||||||
| Soil type | loamy, sandy, clay, silty | ||||||||
| Soil moist/drainage | well drained moist | ||||||||
| Soil PH | 4.5 - 6.5 (very strongly acidic - neutral) | ||||||||
| Water needs | average, lower when established | ||||||||
| Maintenance / care | low | ||||||||
| Resistance to | deer, drought, insect, rabbit | ||||||||
| Gardens types | container, rock | ||||||||
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Bronze Beauty Ajuga, also known as Bugleweed, is an Ajuga reptans family plant. Ajuga reptans is commonly known as bugle, blue bugle, bugleherb, bugleweed, carpetweed, carpet bugleweed, and common bugle, and traditionally but less commonly as St. Lawrence plant. It is an herbaceous flowering plant, in the mint family, native to Europe.
Bronze Beauty Ajuga has small flowers of bright lavender-blue color, packed on upright spikes. Eyecatching Ajuga flowers blooms in the spring and attracts a lot of butterflies.
It loves acid well-drained moist soil of any type: clay (amended), loam, sand (amended), silt (amended). Overly dry soils will require supplemental irrigation.
Bronze Beauty Ajuga is a low growing and spreading perennial plant that features beautiful green scalloped foliage tinted bronze. Quickly spreading by stolons, this is a beautiful plant for use to quickly cover the ground in shady to partly shaded areas such as under and around trees and shrubs.
Bronze Beauty Ajuga is a wonderful choice for use as a colorful groundcover in shady to partially shaded areas, with consistently moist soil this variety will tolerate full sun. Also ideal for use as a spreading border along paths and walkways, as a groundcover to fill in around shrubs in home foundation plantings and woodland areas, as a gap and crevice filler between pavers and stones, as an underplanting for shrubs and trees, tucked around boulders in rock gardens, as a soil cover in combination container gardens.
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Bronze Beauty Ajuga in the landscape and gardening
