Blueberry Muffin Ajuga
$37.00 Original price was: $37.00.$11.10Current price is: $11.10.
1000 in stock
SKU: V2ozdPuIbf
Category: Select Perennials
LIGHT: Full sun, Partial sun
WATER: Keep soil moderately moist.
SIZE: Forms a dense, mounded mat 6 in. tall, 18 in. wide; 10 in. tall in bloom.
| Description | This vigorous groundcover forms a dense mat of green foliage with chocolate brown hues covered with eight-inch tall spikes of deep blue flowers in spring. Its thicker foliage has excellent mildew resistance. Ideal in a container, around shrubs, or as a filler in a bed or rock garden. May repeat bloom in milder climates. An herbaceous perennial. |
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| Bloom Time | Spring to early summer |
| Deciduous/Evergreen | Herbaceous |
| Special Features | Dramatic Foliage Color, Easy Care, Fast Growing, Compact Form |
| Problems/Solutions | Deer Resistant, Erosion Control, Rabbit Resistant, Black Walnut Tolerant |
| Growth Rate | Moderate |
| Growth Habit | Spreading |
| Flower Attributes | Flowers for Cutting, Showy Flowers |
| Patent Act | Asexual reproduction of plants protected by the Plant Patent Act is prohibited during the life of the patent. |
| Landscape Use | Border, Container, Ground Cover, Edging |
| 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. |
| Flower Color | Blue |
| Foliage Color | Bronze |
| Companion Plants | Coral Bells (Heuchera); Painted Fern (Athyrium); Sweet Flag (Acorus); Mondo Grass (Ophiopogon); Japanese Spurge (Pachysandra) |
| Care Instructions | Thrives in organically rich, moist, well-drained soils. Best foliage color in sunnier exposures. Water regularly during the first growing season to establish root system; once established, water as needed to maintain evenly moist soil. Apply a low-nitrogen fertilizer in late summer. Space 15 to 18 in. apart as groundcover. |
| History | ‘Blueberry Muffin’ was a mutation of the dwarf Chocolate Chip Carpet Bugle (A. reptans ‘Valfredda’), discovered in an Oregon nursery and patented by Terra Nova Nurseries. ‘Blueberry Muffin’ has has exhibited a stronger, more vigorous growth habit with but narrower leaves than the wider leaves of Chocolate Chip, and a more mounded form than many of the more creeping forms of Ajuga. The thicker leaves are more resistant to winter Botrytis (grey mold) than many varieties. |
| Lore | 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. Ajuga was an ancient medicinal and used as a wound coagulant, which led to it’s lesser known common name, “carpenter’s herb”. |
| Size | #1 – .75 Gallon |
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