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 'Ice Dance' (Japanese sedge 'Ice Dance')
Other names: Morrow's sedge 'Ice Dance', Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance'
'Ice Dance' is a mound-forming, evergreen perennial bearing long, linear, stiff, dark green leaves with creamy-white margins and insignificant, pale brown flowers in late spring.
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0.75m 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 otrubae (False fox sedge)
Other names: Carex obtrubae, Carex cuprina
C. otrubae is a tufted, clump-forming, semi-evergreen perennial with linear, finely toothed, mid- to pale green leaves and, in summer, cylindrical spikes of green to orange-brown flowers with bristle-like, pale yellow bracts.
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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 |
Other names: European woodland sedge, Forest sedge
C. sylvatica is a clump-forming, evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial with slightly keeled, glossy, mid-green leaves and pale yellow flower spikelets in 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 acutiformis (Swamp sedge)
Other names: Marsh sedge, Lesser pond sedge, Carex paludosa, Lesser bank sedge, Sniddel , Sniddels
C. acutiformis is a vigorous, spreading, rhizomatous perennial with linear, red- or brown-flushed, light green leaves and slender, erect stems bearing dark brown flower spikes in summer.
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1.2m max. spread |
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1.2m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
C. lupulina is a clump-forming, deciduous, perennial grass with upright to arching, flat, linear, mid-green leaves and hop-like, light green flower spikelets in late spring and early summer.
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0.6m max. spread |
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0.8m max. height |
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2-5 years to maturity |
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