Great, thank you! It does look like that's what it is. I hope it will do ok once it dries out again here. He told me it was drought tolerant, but looks like it likes damp areas :/ Does yours do ok in dry summers?

Ok, so I read that it prefers moist soil, but will tolerate drought "remarkably well."

I personally haven't seen it go through a season, since I just started working with a landscaper Oct 2014. However we planted these at some houses going up in Preston Hollow and they're all looking great a few months later. Already a good deal larger than when we put them in.

I've only had my plants for the past month, I'm splitting them and growing them out to fill in some blank spots in my current house, and I water regularly and well. Can't comment on keeping them dry. (I've been told they're very drought tolerant by people that I trust, but I'd like to see it before I said that it's a sure thing.)

After these past few weeks though, I can say that they're -definitely- flood tolerant.

As are my Needle Palms. Man I'm starting to love these things.

Ok, great! I'll plant them in my mud tomorrow, haha.

I grow ajuga in shade and water once a week when it's really hot and we aren't getting rain. It looks marvelous right now from the moisture. When it's really hot and dry, it 'flattens' out some, but plumps back up after watering. They send up tallish (6-8 inch) spikes of blue or purple flowers in March, just lovely.

It's spreads like nobody's business.

Mine lived out were I never watered it for several years with minimal rain till THE DROUGHT. It died. That was the giant Ajuga repins. It was reputed as more xeric than the others. Some people really complain about them. I think that they can be a thug when they are very happy. Sometimes it is good to be not to nice to plants. They will take advantage of you.