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GRASSES
CALAMAGROSTIS ACUTIFLORA 'OVERDAM’.
Mound forming with arching leaves with white edges, and purple flowers spikes. About 4ft. Excellent, reliable and easily grown. Z4.
CALAMAGROSTIS ‘KARL FOERSTER’.
Lustrous deep green arching foliage to 3ft. Feathery flowers to 6ft, purple in early summer, turning buff in winter. Tolerates poor conditions. Z4
CAREX - An enormous genus of evergreen grasses, happy in most soils. Once the predominant genus before the introduction of many of the more recent introductions. The following are, we think, some of the better ones:
CAREX COMANS BRONZE FORM
Densely tufted , hair like, reddish brown. 1ft x 2ft. Z7.
CAREX DIPSACEA
Narrow, olive green leaves, with black flowers. 1ft x 1ft. Z7.
CAREX DOLIOSTICHA’ KAGA NISHIKI’.
Fountain like mound eventually to 2ft. Evergreen, leaves medium green with gold edges. Drought tolerant and hardy. Z5.
CAREX ELATA AUREA
Bowles’ Golden Sedge. Gently arching, rich yellow. 2ft x 18”. Requires damp soil and can be grown as a bog or marginal plant. Z7.
CAREX ORNITHOPODA VARIEGATA.
Miniature tuft of narrow glossy dark green leaves with central white stripe. 6” x 6”. Z7.
CAREX OSHIMENSIS ‘EVERGOLD’
Glossy, dark green leaves with bright central yellow stripe. 9” flower spikes 18” x 12”. Z6.
CAREX PENDULA,
Weeping sedge. Dense clump of quite wide shiny mid-green leaves. Drooping catkin like dark brown flowers. Normally about 4ft x 3ft . A solid green statement. Z8.
CAREX PHYLLOCEPHALA ‘SPARKLER’.
Low growing striking grass. The leaves are dark green in the centre with broad white margins and are carried in whorls. Excellent container specimen, possibly best overwintered under glass. Exotic but fussy. 1ft x 18”. Z8
CAREX RIPARIA VARIEGATA.
Narrow dark green leaves with a white stripe. Likes moisture, and can be used as a pond marginal.18” high, will spread. Z6.
CAREX SECTA TENUICULMIS.
Tussock forming, with fine dark brown leaves. About 18” x 18”. Z7.
CAREX SIDEROSTICHA’ KISO-KAIDO’.
Low growing broad leaved grass to about 8”. Leaves mid-green with wide white central stripe. Z6.
CHASMANTHIUM LATIFOLIUM
Upright arching clump forming grass, worth growing for the large flat oat-like flowers, pale green in midsummer, turning red-bronze in autumn and staying through the winter. 4ft x 2ft. Z8.
CORTADERIA SELLANOA AUREOLINEATA
Form of Pampas Grass with golden variegated foliage. Arching habit of modest size. 3ft x 3ft. Smallish white plumes. Z8.
CORTADERIA SELLANOA ‘WHITE FEATHER’.
Pampas Grass seems to have fallen out of favour, but is well worth growing in our view, if you have the right place for it. A majestic plant providing valuable winter interest, and impressive dried plumes. The leaves can reach 3ft x 3ft, the flowers about 6ft. Z7.