Ajuga reptans
Growing calendar
Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.
Guides
- Planting Ajuga: Deciding the Edge Before You Put the First Plant In
- Ajuga Care: Keeping a Bugleweed Mat Dense Without Letting It Take Over
- Ajuga Flowering: Getting the Full Sheet of Blue Spikes in Spring
- Ajuga Year-Round Schedule: What to Do Season by Season
- Ajuga Problems: Crown Rot, Collapsed Patches and What Actually Stops Them
- Propagating Ajuga: Pulling Rooted Plantlets Off the Runners
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.