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groundcover layer
bugle
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a fast, glossy carpet running on rooting stolons, topped in spring with blue flower-spikes the early bees mob — weed-proof living mulch for the damp half-shade.
functions
ground coverpollinator foragewildlife habitat
light
part shade
moisture
moist
soil
most, tolerates damp clay
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grower's notes
memberspropagation, guild role, and deeper ecology for bugle — the members' view.
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relationships — grows well with
sweet woodruffgalium odoratum→foam flowertiarella cordifolia→lungwortpulmonaria angustifolia→wild strawberryfragaria vesca→
see bugle on the relationship map →the takeaway
start a guild around bugle
plant these together and the relationships on this page start working for you — feeders, protectors, and cover, layer by layer.
- groundcover
- bugle — the anchor
- groundcover
- sweet woodrufffoam flowerwild strawberry
- herbaceous
- lungwort