Feathered Friends Noble Nightingale Bugleweed
Ajuga 'Noble Nightingale'
Feathered Friends Series
A stunning hardy variety, featuring feather-like forest green and dark purple foliage in the spring and summer; cobalt-blue flowers are subtle; excellent when used in containers, as a groundcover, or in border fronts; tolerates any soil with good drainage
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
Feathered Friends™ Noble Nightingale Bugleweed is a dense herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other garden plants with less refined foliage.
Ornamental Qualities
Feathered Friends™ Noble Nightingale Bugleweed's attractive small glossy narrow leaves remain forest green in color with showy deep purple variegation and tinges of burgundy throughout the year on a plant with a spreading habit of growth. It features subtle spikes of royal blue flowers rising above the foliage from late spring to early summer | which emerge from distinctive silver flower buds.
Planting and Growing
Feathered Friends™ Noble Nightingale Bugleweed will grow to be only 4 inches tall at maturity extending to 6 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 particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. 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
4" (6" with flowers)Hx18"W
Flowers are royal blue
Flowers from late spring to early summer
Attracts butterflies
Known to be safe
Likes well drained soil

