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Ajuga

Ajuga is one of the most indispensable groundcovers around. It has so many uses and looks great so much of the year.

Also known as carpetweed or bugleweed, ajuga forms a 6-inch-tall mat of glossy leaves that always seem to look neat and fresh. In many cases, the leaves are colored with shades of purple, white, silver, cream, or pink. Individual plants grow as a rosette, but they intertwine to form a solid carpet that withstands some foot traffic. Blue, lavender, pink or white flower spikes adorn plants in spring to early summer.

Ajuga is great in rock gardens, in the front of beds and borders, to plant under leggy shrubs or small trees, to plant along paths, and just about any other place in the landscape you want to cover the ground with attractive foliage and little flowers.

Light:
Sun, Part Sun, Shade
Zones:
4-10
Plant Type:
Perennial
Plant Height:
4-9 inches tall
Plant Width:
6-18 inches wide
Flower Color:
Blue, purple, pink or white flowers, depending on variety; foliage is often tinged with maroon, bronze, purple, pink or white
Bloom Time:
Blooms appear in spring to early summer
Landscape Uses:
Containers, Beds & Borders, Slopes, Groundcover
Special Features:
Flowers, Attractive Foliage, Deer Resistant, Easy to Grow

Top Varieties


(Ajuga reptans) forms a low-growing mat 4 inches tall with flower spikes up to 9 inches tall. Many forms with variegated foliage are available. Zones 3-9
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Ajuga genevensis is a relatively uncommon form that works well as a showy groundcover in partial shade. Most forms have blue blooms, but white and pink types are also available. Zones 3-8
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(Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow') features foliage that ranges from green to purplish maroon. In spring, blue flowers rise above the colorful foliage. Zones 3-9
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(Ajuga reptans 'Dixie Chip') is a variegated selection that offers foliage streaked with white, cream, and pink. It's decorated with blue flowers in spring. Zones 3-9
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(Ajuga reptans 'Golden Glow') lights up shady corners with creamy white tones on its spreading foliage. Zones 3-9
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(Ajuga reptans 'Silver Beauty') is a quick-growing selection with silvery-green leaves edged in white. It bears small spikes of blue flowers in spring and grows 1 foot tall and 2 feet wide. Zones 3-9
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Plant It With


Coral bells

Rounded mounds of coral bells blend well with the mat-like foliage of ajuga. The airy flower spikes of coral bells stand out against a backdrop of dark ajuga foliage.

Fothergilla

Give shade-loving shrubs such as fothergilla a pretty skirt by planting colorful ajuga varieties around their base.

Bleeding heart

Plant ajuga with old-fashioned bleeding hearts so you have color and interest when the bleeding hearts go dormant in summer.

Propagation


Division
Stem Cuttings

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