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Bugleweed Growing Guide: Planting, Care & Harvest

A low creeping perennial with spikes of blue flowers, used as shade ground cover in home gardens.

Bugleweed

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Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

GrowingFlowering

Guides

Pests and diseases (4)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Powdery Mildew

Disease

White patches appear scattered on the upper leaf surface at first, then the whole leaf is coated in a white powder. Leaves later yellow, brown and die back, and reduced photosynthesis cuts growth and yield.

Southern Blight

Disease

The stem rots at soil level and white silky mycelium spreads over the crown and the surrounding soil surface. Brown sclerotia the size of rapeseed then form and the plant wilts and dies rapidly.

Crown BlightSnow Mold

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