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Japanese Sedge | Carex oshimensis 'Moonlight'

Brilliant cream and green blades

Grown by Jack

Hereford

Garden Ready Plant in a 1L Pot

£8

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The highlights

  • Can grow in all light conditions
  • Perfect for border edges and containers
  • Alluring evergreen foliage
  • Low maintenance and easy to grow

Description

  • A gloriously variegated sedge featuring creamy yellow leaves with deep green margins
  • Evergreen foliage grows upwards from a tuft before arching out and flowing elegantly downwards, adding understated class wherever it's planted
  • Perfect for growing in beds and borders alongside colourful perennials (like rudbeckia and echinacea) in prairie-style planting schemes, 'Moonlight' can also be used to add year-round interest to patios when grown in a container
  • Looking for an unfussy plant? Look no further; this variety is fully cold hardy, low maintenance and incredibly easy to grow - what's not to like?
  • This variety is as versatile as it is enchanting, and can be used, not only in prairie gardens as mentioned above, but also in contemporary, coastal and cottage garden schemes

What To Expect

Supplied as:

Potted plant
Garden ready plant in a 1L pot

Height on arrival:

Eventual height:

30-60cm

Eventual spread:

30cm
Spreads approximately 30cm.

Time to first crop:

Habit:

Tufted, clump-forming
Forms neat a clump of foliage with tall, slender leaves that grow up before arching out and down.

Hardiness:

Fully hardy
H7 - Fully cold hardy down to temperatures of below -20°C.

Rootstock:

Spacing:

30cm
Plant 30cm apart to allow for spreading.

How To Grow

Excellent pest and disease resistance

Not generally affected by diseases or pests.

Water well at first

Water your sedge regularly during its first year. Once established, it will be fairly tolerant to drought.

Full sun to full shade

Carex does best in a sheltered, part-shaded spot with dappled light; it can also tolerate both full shade and sunnier positions, however.

Any moist, well-drained soil

Moonlight' prefers moderately fertile soil that's moist but drains well. Consider adding some horticultural grit to your soil to improve drainage.

Feed in spring

A once-yearly application of fertiliser will generally be enough to keep this grass nice and happy.

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Hereford

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Our perennials start life in the rolling Herefordshire hills, where Jack and his team trial over 250 new varieties each year to bring you the best performing and most sustainable plants in the UK. With over forty years of excellence, it’s no surprise that they’ve won the HTA Plant Grower of the Year award two years running.

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