The tenacious creeping (in Latin Ajuga reptans) is a plant belonging to the family of Lamiaceae. It is found in the wild in forests and steppes. She has many popular names: gourd, heart grass, young, hernia.
The name of the plant fully reflects its characteristics: single-stemmed, perennial, well-growing. If you plant 5 small delenoks in the spring, they will quickly acclimatize and grow. Green oval leaves will grow up, and by mid-summer they will acquire a brownish tint. New shoots will appear, and from them - young plants. By autumn, you will get a beautiful carpet, which will cover an area of about 1 square. m
The tenacious creeping is unpretentious, hardy. In hot summers, it can do without water for about 3.5 weeks. After such an extreme look, she will not be the best, and she will have to be “soldered”, but she will not die! Not afraid of sunburn.
Throughout the season, right up to the snow, a tenacious creep is decorative. A photo of its abundant flowering and elegant leaves confirms the opinion of gardeners that this plant is able to decorate any flowerbed or near-stem circle.
She is able to take root on any soil. But if she had a choice, then tenacity would prefer well-moistened, humus-rich loam. In one place it can grow for several years. Her
root system is superficial, that is, deep loosening is unacceptable. It reaches a height of 20 cm. It is frost-resistant enough.
A tenacious creeper blooms in May and blooms for about a month. Its flowers are small, arranged in steps. Coloring can be blue, blue, white and pink. Seeds ripen in July-August, depending on weather conditions.
With reproduction, no problems arise. You can share an overgrown bush from spring to autumn. If a small outlet has a small root, then it will take root. When landing, do not deepen the outlet. The optimum distance between plants is 20 cm. After planting, watering is necessary daily for a week.
A wonderful plant - a tenacious creep. It can be grown anywhere - in the sun, and in partial shade, and in the shade. It looks harmoniously under the trees, it can cover the soil under
climbing roses, clematis and many other vines. A little thing will fit into the rock garden, and any unsightly corner of the garden will decorate.
Currently, many varieties of survivors with variegated leaves and colorful flowers have been bred. Leaves can be gray-green, green-reddish-brown, purplish-lilac, brownish-magenta, with a white pattern on a green background and a fringing, etc. You can collect a whole collection of different survivors and design the original flowerbed. It should only be taken into account that variegated varieties will show their beauty in full only in the sun.
The tenacious creeping to all of the above pluses is also useful. It is used in folk medicine as an antiseptic, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and diaphoretic. It refers to medicinal plants, with the help of which they improve metabolism. Basal leaves and young shoots of tenacity are added to salads.
Once planting this plant in the garden, you will love it so much that there are certainly other places where a creeping little thing will become necessary.