Bronze Hair Sedge

Other Names: Hair Sedge

Description:

Grown for delicate ornamental bronze colored foliage carried all season long; great in a moist border in partial shade or sun, does not like to dry out

Ornamental Features:

Bronze Hair Sedge's attractive grassy leaves are coppery-bronze in colour. The foliage often turns brown in fall. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Bronze Hair Sedge is an herbaceous evergreen ornamental grass with a mounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance ornamental grass, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Bronze Hair Sedge is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Groundcover
• Border Edging
• Naturalizing And Woodland Gardens
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Bronze Hair Sedge will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 24 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 7 years.

This ornamental grass does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This plant can be propagated by division.

This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

This plant is not reliably hardy in our region, and certain restrictions may apply; contact the store for more information.