Bronze Beauty Bugleweed
Ajuga reptans 'Bronze Beauty'
$19.98
A vigorous, low growing and spreading selection that features beautiful bronze tinged, green foliage; blue flower spikes appear in the spring and into the early summer; heat tolerant and low maintenance; deadhead spent flowers
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Bronze Beauty Bugleweed is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden | but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Bronze Beauty Bugleweed's attractive small crinkled round leaves remain forest green in color with prominent coppery-bronze tips throughout the year on a plant with a spreading habit of growth. It features subtle spikes of sky blue flowers rising above the foliage from mid to late spring.
Planting and Growing
Bronze Beauty Bugleweed will grow to be only 6 inches tall at maturity extending to 8 inches tall with the flowers | with a spread of 18 inches. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an evegreen perennial | this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.
This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions | but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider covering it with a thick layer of mulch in winter to protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Plant Facts
Prefers partial shade to shade
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 6"(8"withtheflowers)Hx18"W
Flowers are sky blue
Flowers from mid to late spring
Attracts butterflies
Zone 4a
Likes well drained soil