Carex Elata Bowles Golden 1 gal.

Bowles' Golden Sedge

Carex elata 'Bowles Golden'

Plant Height: 18 inches

Flower Height: 24 inches

Spread: 18 inches

Sunlight: full sun partial shade

Hardiness Zone: 5a

Other Names: Tufted Sedge, Bowles' Golden Grass

Description:

This sedge has spectacular bright gold-yellow foliage with thin green margins and is taller than most others; an excellent choice as a highlight plant for a shade or water garden; moisture loving and needs to be constantly wet or moist to thrive

Ornamental Features

Bowles' Golden Sedge is primarily valued in the garden for its cascading habit of growth. Its attractive grassy leaves emerge lime green in spring, turning yellow in colour with prominent green stripes. The foliage often turns brown in fall. The tan seed heads are carried on plumes in late summer.

Landscape Attributes

Bowles' Golden Sedge is an herbaceous perennial grass with a shapely form and gracefully arching stems. 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 plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Bowles' Golden Sedge is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Mass Planting
Border Edging
General Garden Use
Groundcover
Container Planting
Bog Gardens