Burgundy Glow Carpet Bugle
Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow'
Excellent spreading groundcover featuring colorful burgundy tinged pale green and cream variegated foliage and deep blue flower spikes. Forms a dense, carpet-like mat, even in shady areas! Perennial.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | a-JU-gah REP-tanz |
| Key feature: | Groundcover |
| Plant types: | Perennial, Groundcover |
| Garden styles: | Contemporary, Cottage |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Herbaceous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 4 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Partial to full sun |
| Sunset climate zones: | 1 - 24, 29 - 45 |
| Water Needs: | Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing 2 to 5 in. tall, spreading to 12 to 18 in wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Special features: | Dramatic Foliage Color |
| Landscape uses: | Firescaping/Fire Wise, Mass Planting, Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | Blue |
| Blooms: | Summer |
| Foliage color: | Multicolored |
| Item no.: | 0059 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Control weeds until the plants have filled in. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer.
Design Ideas
This ground hugging colorful groundcover has long been the solution for difficult dappled shade under canopies of large shade trees. Unusual foliage color and towers of blue flowers are best appreciated up close in the front of borders or in foundation planting at often traveled points. Flat habit and resilient nature is well suited for filling in gaps between individual flagstones and concrete steppers. Same application can be used in sheltered rock gardens or around landscape boulders and outcroppings. Good color relief for Asian garden settings. Easy to grow in containers and troughs.
History
This garden perennial falls into the mint family along with all the useful herbs. It is known as bugle weed and the more ground hugging species were the carpet bugles. The genus was assigned by Linnaeus from the Latin for not yoked, which refers to a certain part of the flower. There are over 50 different species, this one named A. reptans, from the Latin for creeping, which describes its growth habit.'Burgundy Glow' was developed by the Fleming Brothers at Fleming Flower Fields, Inc. of Lincoln, Nebraska.
Excellent spreading groundcover featuring colorful burgundy tinged pale green and cream variegated foliage and deep blue flower spikes. Forms a dense, carpet-like mat, even in shady areas! Perennial.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Control weeds until the plants have filled in. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer.
Design Ideas
This ground hugging colorful groundcover has long been the solution for difficult dappled shade under canopies of large shade trees. Unusual foliage color and towers of blue flowers are best appreciated up close in the front of borders or in foundation planting at often traveled points. Flat habit and resilient nature is well suited for filling in gaps between individual flagstones and concrete steppers. Same application can be used in sheltered rock gardens or around landscape boulders and outcroppings. Good color relief for Asian garden settings. Easy to grow in containers and troughs.
History
This garden perennial falls into the mint family along with all the useful herbs. It is known as bugle weed and the more ground hugging species were the carpet bugles. The genus was assigned by Linnaeus from the Latin for not yoked, which refers to a certain part of the flower. There are over 50 different species, this one named A. reptans, from the Latin for creeping, which describes its growth habit.'Burgundy Glow' was developed by the Fleming Brothers at Fleming Flower Fields, Inc. of Lincoln, Nebraska.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | a-JU-gah REP-tanz |
| Key feature: | Groundcover |
| Plant types: | Perennial, Groundcover |
| Garden styles: | Contemporary, Cottage |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Herbaceous |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 4 - 9 |
| Light needs: | Partial to full sun |
| Sunset climate zones: | 1 - 24, 29 - 45 |
| Water Needs: | Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing 2 to 5 in. tall, spreading to 12 to 18 in wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Special features: | Dramatic Foliage Color |
| Landscape uses: | Firescaping/Fire Wise, Mass Planting, Woodland Garden |
| Flower color: | Blue |
| Blooms: | Summer |
| Foliage color: | Multicolored |
| Item no.: | 0059 |
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