Carex Milk Chocolate (Carex 'Milchoc' )
Other names: Sedge Milk Chocolate
Milk Chocolate is an evergreen grass with glossy arching leaves that have yellow and red tints when new, ageing to brown and becoming orange-tinted in the autumn.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex phyllocephala 'Sparkler' (Carex phyllocephala 'Sparkler')
'Sparkler' is an evergreen sedge with whorled, strap-like leaves that are light-green with cream margins on an upright stem. In summer it bears a central cluster of brush-like flowers.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex oshimensis 'Evergold' (Sedge 'Evergold')
'Evergold' is a clump-forming, evergreen, grass-like sedge bearing long, arching, linear, mid-green leaves, each with a central, pale yellow stripe. Inconspicuous, brown flower spikelets bloom in summer.
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0.4m max. spread |
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0.3m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex testacea 'Prairie Fire' (Orange New Zealand sedge 'Prairie Fire' )
'Prairie Fire' is a tender, densely-tufted, evergreen perennial with narrowly-linear, arching, orange-flushed, olive green leaves turning orange red in autumn and cylindrical, red-flushed, brown flowers spikes in summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex elata 'Aurea' (Bowles' golden sedge)
Other names: Carex stricta 'Aurea', Carex elata 'Bowles' Golden', Carex acuta 'Aurea', Carex flava 'Aurea'
'Aurea' is a semi-evergreen, clump-forming perennial with linear, arching, yellow leaves narrowly edged with green. Brown male flower spikes are borne above green female spikes in late spring and early summer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.7m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex pendula (Pendulous sedge)
C. pendula is a grassy perennial with long, dropping red-brown flowers in summer.
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1.5m max. spread |
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1.4m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex comans (Bronze New Zealand hair sedge)
C. comans bronze forms a dense tuft of narrow, linear, reddish-brown leaves, with inconspicuous brown flower spikes.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex flagellifera (Glen Murray tussock sedge)
Other names: Carex flagellaris 'Cyperacea' , Weeping brown sedge, Orange hair sedge, Carex lucida
C. flagellifera forms clumps of linear, reddish-brown leaves, and tall stems of pale brown flower spikes in late summer.
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1m max. spread |
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1m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex tenuiculmis (New Zealand hair sedge)
Other names: Cinnamon sedge, Bronze sedge, Carex secta var. tenuiculmis
C. tenuiculmis is a densely tufted, evergreen perennial with linear, grass-like, brown to bronze-red leaves and spikes of pale brown flowers from late spring into summer.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.6m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
Carex testacea (Orange New Zealand sedge)
C. testacea is a densely tufted, evergreen perennial with long, olive-green to orange-brown arching leaves and pale to dark brown flower spikes on stems in midsummer.
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0.5m max. spread |
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0.5m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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