Ajuga Chocolate Chip Update - 9 Months Later - August 2023
Last Fall, I planted a number of small containers of Ajuga Chocolate Chips that I brought home from Lowes and their year-end sale. I put some in the back and stuck three of these groundcover plants into the little island bed that is tucked in between our driveway and front walk/stairs/porch. I don't seem to have posted any photos in the garden diary, but I ended up taking one. But, in the photo I have from late October 2022 (below), there's only two Ajuga Chocolate Chip in this bed. You can see that they were pretty small and green. That was very late October. So, what do this groundcover look like nine-months later? See below for an update. And.....surprise! There's three of them. (I guess that I ended up planting a third here???) They've spread out and filled in some of that space. They're doing exactly what they're supposed to do: fill out that bed, cover up the mulch to make more of a 'living mulch', reduce the number of footcandles so t