‘Fancy Finch’ Ajuga

Ajuga reptans ‘Fancy Finch‘ FEATHERED FRIENDS

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Perennial

Height at Maturity: 4-6″

Width at Maturity: 12-18″ or more
Spacing: 12″ for groundcover planting

Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Carpet-Forming, Mounding, Spreading/Trailing

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: Cobalt Blue

Flower Size: Small, packed on upright spikes

Flowering Period: Late Spring to Early Summer

Flower Type: Single

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Shades of Gold, Green, Bronze

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: –

Sun Needs: Full Sun, Shade, Part Sun

Water Needs: Average, lower when established

Soil Type: Clay (amended), Loam, Sand (amended), Silt (amended)

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well-Drained

Soil pH: 4.5 – 6.5 (Acid to Slightly Acid

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention, Butterflies, Beneficial Insects

Resistances: Deer, Drought, Insect, Rabbit

Description

If you can’t decide which foliage color is best for Bugleweed, then pick all three with Feathered Friends ‘Fancy Finch’ Ajuga! This perennial ground cover boasts tricolor small leaves in shades of gold, green and bronze! It’s more narrow leaves add a feathery texture and uniqueness in the garden with a colorful display that lasts year-round. The spikes of cobalt-blue flowers are an extra-added bonus in mid to late spring. This vigorous ground cover quickly grows as a thick mat, suppressing weeds along the way. It’s sure to become a favorite in the shade garden.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a carpet-like patch to 4 to 6 inches tall and spreading 12-18 inches or more, Fancy Finch Ajuga is a wonderful choice for use as a colorful groundcover in shady to partially shaded areas. With consistently moist soil this variety will tolerate full sun in the South. Also ideal for use as a spreading border along paths and walkways, as a groundcover to fill in around shrubs in home foundation plantings and woodland areas, as a gap and crevice filler between pavers and stones, as an underplanting for shrubs and trees, tucked around boulders in rock gardens, as a soil cover in combination container gardens. A fine addition to black theme gardens, rock gardens, and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 12 to 18 inches apart for mass plantings and solid borders

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Growing Preferences

When planted right and in the right spot, Fancy Finch Ajuga is easy to grow. It adapts to most soil types and likes shade to part shade. Morning sun or all day filtered sun is fine. It prefers a moist but well-drained soil of average fertility. Overly dry soils will require supplemental irrigation. As with many other plants, a constantly soggy or wet soil can be problematic.

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