Please can someone ID this plant?

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• tlchimera Posts: 51

  April 2022 edited April 2022

  It's a version of ajuga reptans, lovely little plant. Likes dryish patches and gently spreads (not in a scary way, you can rip it up easily if it goes somewhere you don't want it) - bees like the flowers. 
  
  

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• didyw Posts: 3,573

  April 2022

  It looks like Ajuga reptans.  I did a quick google and came up with this:
  https://www.adcocksnursery.com/plants_details/plant/2426504/1g-black-scallop-carpet-bugle
  Looks like your friend's plant.

  Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.

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• GardenerSuze Posts: 5,692

  April 2022

  @Sazz101 The flowers are blue and very pretty.

  I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  April 2022

  It can be quite a thug, but its easy to pull out. It'll grow anywhere- sun, shade, wet, dry. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2022

  I love them, and the bees love the flowers ... there are other versions with different coloured leaves. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Sazz101 Posts: 248

  April 2022

   Thank you very much everyone! Definitely a keeper

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  April 2022 edited April 2022

  didyw said:

  It looks like Ajuga reptans.  I did a quick google and came up with this:
  https://www.adcocksnursery.com/plants_details/plant/2426504/1g-black-scallop-carpet-bugle
  
  

  Agree Ajuga reptans Black Scallop is a good contender.
  https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=11713966@N02&sort=date-taken-desc&text=ajuga reptans black scallop.&view_all=1
  
  
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Sazz101 Posts: 248

  April 2022

  @Silver surfer that’s it! Thank you 

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