10 Popular Sedges for Ornamental Garden Use - The Spruce
WEBJan 18, 2024 · Orange New Zealand hair sedge is very similar to the Bronze New Zealand hair sedge, right down to its water requirements and potential uses in the landscape. It may well be the more popular of the two, though, because its color is more intense.
Orange New Zealand Sedge, Carex testacea, Monrovia Plant
WEBFinely textured, bronze-green leaves age to electric orange in the cool season. The elegant, arching, mounding form is a beautiful evergreen garden accent, ideal for containers, massing in borders or spilling over rocks. Deer and …
Carex at Wairere Nursery - Buy Online
WEBA large genus of more than 1500 species of grass-like plants, commonly known as sedges. At least 70 species are native to New Zealand. Their foliage is grass-like and they are clump or tussock forming, softening the edges in a landscape design like few other plants can do.
Carex testacea (New Zealand Hair Sedge) - Gardenia
WEBNew Zealand Hair Sedge, Orange Sedge. One of the cold-hardier New Zealand Hairy Sedges, Carex testacea forms a low, cascading mound of narrow, arching, olive-green leaves turning coppery-brown in summer and adding warm, orange tints in winter.
Carex buchananii (Leatherleaf Sedge) - Gardenia
WEBA very popular Sedge, Carex buchananii (Leatherleaf Sedge) is a tufted perennial grass with an evergreen foliage of narrow, copper-bronze leaves. Erect when young, the grass-like leaves tend gradually to arch over time, curling gracefully towards their tips.
Growing Carex Testacea: Orange New Zealand Sedge Care
WEBCarex Testacea [KAR-eks, test-uh-SEE-uh] is a deciduous evergreen tufted perennial from the sedge or graminoid family Cyperaceae. This arching ornamental grass is a New Zealand native, earning the common name New Zealand Orange Sedge. Image: chuck b.
Carex testacea ‘Prairie Fire’ (New Zealand Hair Sedge) - Gardenia
WEBCarex testacea 'Prairie Fire' is a visually captivating cold-hardy New Zealand Hairy Sedge. Its arching olive-green leaves with bright orange highlights create a low, cascading mound.
Carex (Carex testacea) - Great South
WEBCarex is a hardy native New Zealand sedge familiar to anyone who spends time tramping in the high-country. It is also increasingly popular in garden plantings due to its easy care. Although not technically a grass, for gardening purposes sedges like Carex are grouped with the ornamental grasses.
Carex albula (Curly Sedge, Lime-green Sedge, New Zealand Hair Sedge …
WEBCurly sedge is a perennial plant in the Cyperaceae (sedge) family native to the riverbanks of the South Island of New Zealand. The name Carex is Latin for "cutter" in reference to the sharp triangular stem edges found on most members of this genus.
Sedges - AgPest
WEBAn illustrated guide to common grasses, sedges and rushes of New Zealand. New Zealand Plant Protection Society, Lincoln, New Zealand. 182 p. Holden P 2021/2022.
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