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Potted Ajuga Plants - Description
- Potted Ajuga Plants
- Common Names Include
- Bugle, Blue Bugle, Bugleherb, Bugleweed, Bungleweed
- Carpetweed, Carpet Bugleweed, Common Bugle
- Potted Plant
- Variery: Burgundy Glow
- Pot Size: 9cm
- Cutrrent Size: 10cm
Potted Ajuga Plants - Characteristics
- Plant Type: Ground Cover
- Fully Grown Size: 30cm high, 100cm spread
- Vigorous, spreading ground cover plant
- Flower Colour: Deep blue
- Flower: Tall spires arise from lower leaves
- Flowering Time: from late Spring into Summer
- Foliage: Excellent foliage colour with glossy surface
- Ovate leaf shape
- Foliage Colour: Deep purple
- Sow: All year round
- Hardiness: Fully hardy
Potted Ajuga Plants - Uses
- Very useful garden plant
- Ajuga will cover bare soil & reduce garden maintenance
- Popular plant for it's year round purple foliage colour
- Ajuga is your first choice when it comes to ground cover
- Position plants towards the front of borders
- Use to create a low horizontal plant form in planting scheme
- Some great companion plants include the folowing
- Lavenders, Aspleniums & Saxifraga
- Ajuga contrasts really well with 'silver foliage' including
- Santolina, Salvia Purpurea, Festuca Glauca & Stachys Byzantina
Potted Ajuga Plants - Planting Instructions
- Soak pots in water before sowing
- Choose a location
- Happy in sun or part shade
- Deep, fertile soil that is well drained
- Spacing: 50cm apart
- Prepare bed by digging over soil & adding fertilizer or manure
- Dig hole roughly twice the size of the plant pot
- Handle pots with care
- Squeeze side of pots to remove plant
- Firm in well
- Soak soil well after planting
- Feed every 2 to 3 weeks
- Can lift & divide clumps every 3 years
