I was a buyer for perennials and groundcovers for a large retail nursery for years - I have never heard of anything called "orange ajuga". There is no ajuga that blooms orange - blue, pinky-lavender or white - or some with bronze foliage, pehaps even a toffee-colored variegated form, but not orange. Or anything close to orange :-) Ajuga is NOT an "invasive weed". It is a very popular groundcover with a sometimes aggressively spreading habit depending on growing conditions - exactly what most folks look for in a groundcover:-) If you questions about the suitability of the plant in question, try growing it in a container for awhile to see how it performs. And if you can, post photos so we can figure out exactly what it is you have.

Hi Mike, Dont buy the oxypetalum. I am sending you a few pieces of this one. It is true that they grow like crazy. I left this one at my parents house when I moved out because it does take a tremendous amount of space. I got a call from my mom and she told me that she was waiting for the day that that was going to strangle her..LOL. Once you have an established cutting, you can expect some new growths to be a couple feet long. No joke, mine had some growths that were 4 ft long in one summer!! The blooms are great! Just make sure your going to be home to enjoy them! Mine only lasted one night and that was it. As soon as the sun went down, the bud would begin to open. By the time the sun came up, it was closing. Logees describes it as having flowers the size of dinner plates. I had some that were even larger than that!!! Mine is pitifull now compared to when it was in its glory. I wished I would have found a way to care for it here. At one point, that plant was around 10ft long but I have had it for over 10 years. You can control the growth with pruning. Just make sure you do it at the right time or you will end up with no blooms. I will have to read up on my notes on this before I can tell you when to prune it. I can send you 3-4 nice cuttings next week with the others if you want okay? I also have a nice big pink epi. I don't know the name of the variety but it is really pretty. Trust me, neither of them will take a lifetime to get blooms from. My oxy bloomed in 1.5-2 years after I got it. I started a couple for friends and the one I gave to my landlords mom bloomed the same year I rooted it! The pink variety I bought locally and they had rooted cuttings with buds on them. I will say that it may take a couple years for those blooms to reach there potential. Andrew

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Thanks guess we will be pulling that out of the yard. It was from an empty lot we bought, and are cleaning it up to get ready to plant next spring. penny