Ajuga
Ajuga spp.
Special Features
A fast-growing ground cover known for its colorful foliage and spikes of blue flowers. Excellent for adding low-maintenance color and texture to shady areas.
Plant Specifications
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Growing Ajuga on Martha's Vineyard
Ajuga reptans, the bugleweed, is one of the most adaptable and broadly useful ground cover perennials in Martha's Vineyard landscape maintenance, tolerating a remarkable range of conditions from full sun to fairly deep shade and from average sandy soils to the moister positions found near the island's freshwater features. Its low, spreading rosettes of attractive foliage, available in green, bronze-purple, and variegated selections, suppress weeds effectively and spread quickly enough to provide meaningful coverage in the first season after planting. The blue flower spikes in May provide early-season color interest appreciated in spring garden programs throughout Edgartown and Oak Bluffs.
Deer leave it largely undisturbed, a practical advantage throughout the island. Estate Care professionals rely on ajuga as a fast-establishing, versatile ground cover for edge situations, slopes, and mixed border underplanting where quick coverage and low maintenance are both required.
