AJUGA Chocolate CHIP Bugleweed Valfreda Shade Garden Ground Cover Live Plant Blue Flowers Bronze Leaves Starter Size 4 Inch Pot Emeralds tm

Chocolate Chip Bugleweed is a type of Ajuga, which is made up predominately of low growing, ground cover plants with blue flowers. Chocolate Chip was developed in Italy by Valfredda Nursery, where it is known as Ajuga x tenori or Valfredda. It has smaller, more narrow leaves than other types in a dark olive toned green that blushes purple to chocolate brown. Overall it grows lower, slower, and more dense, maturing at only about 4 inches tall, and is easier to contained, better behaved, and resistant than other types as well, and is cold hardy, and has a multitude of interesting uses, such as a low maintenance, easy care ground cover, a replacement for turf grass in shady areas, as edging or filler for paths and stepping stones, a part of mixed perennial beds, mixed garden pots, or raised planters or baskets. It is an excellent choice for the deeply shaded areas where other ground covers fail. Once well established it can be mowed and trimmed much as grass would be.