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Perennial herbaceous plant, evergreen for shade, it forms dense elegant tufts, with thin glaucous-green foliage with bluish hues. Enhanced in pots, useful for adding a touch of color and structure to flowerbeds. Perfect for shaded lawns. Also suitable for growing indoors or on the veranda.
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Perennial herbaceous plant, evergreen for shade, it forms dense elegant tufts, with thin glaucous-green foliage with bluish hues. Enhanced in pots, useful for adding a touch of color and structure to flowerbeds. Perfect for shaded lawns. Also suitable for growing indoors or on the veranda.
Perennial herbaceous plant, evergreen for shade, it forms dense elegant tufts, with thin glaucous-green foliage with bluish hues. Enhanced in pots, useful for adding a touch of color and structure to flowerbeds. Perfect for shaded lawns.
It creates evergreen prairies, spreading with its rhizomes.
Carexes are particularly easy to grow. This perennial is adaptable to a wide variety of conditions, from sun to partial shade to shade.
Being evergreen, it is interesting for creating movement and soul all year round in the garden, in borders as well as in pots and bowls, where it remains unchanged in every season.
Suitable as a side dish to other sun plants that love humidity, such as herbaceous hibiscus, mimulus, lysimachia, persicaria... and to undergrowth plants such as ferns, hellebores, epimedium, geranium, liriope, hosta.
The name 'Carex' derives from the Greek "kéiro" meaning 'I cut', referring to the thin margins of the leaves of this genus.
Classification
Common name: Blue sedge, gray carex, glaucous sedge, or carnation-grass
Genus and species: Carex flacca (syn. Carex glauca)
Cultivar: 'Buis'
Family: Cyperaceae.
Characteristics
Description of the flowers: Apical spikes, quite showy.
Flower color: Purplish-brown and are followed by reddish-black seeds.
Flowering period: Late Spring, early Summer.
Leaves: Ribbon-shaped, glaucous-green in color with silvery and bluish shades, and a thin golden outer margin.
Perfume: -
Dimensions: Compact variety, height approximately 20-25 cm, slowly widens, naturalizing and creating fine carpets.
Cultivation
Exposure: Sun, partial shade, shade.
Soil: Any, even poor.
Irrigation: Likes regular watering if exposed to the sun, drought tolerant in the shade.
Frost resistance: USDA 4
Care
Pruning: It does not require pruning, periodically remove the older basal leaves which are now soft and straw-coloured, which are naturally abandoned by the plant or those damaged by perennial snow or particularly intense frost. To renew it, it is possible to cut the burnt tops at the end of winter before vegetative growth, with scissors.
Propagation: It is propagated by dividing the tufts in spring.
| Esposizione | Dal sole del mattino all'ombra profonda |
| Periodo di fioritura | Primavera, Estate |
| Colore del Fiore | Verde |
| Colore delle Foglie | Verde-Bluastro |
| Fogliame | Sempreverde |
| Altezza Massima | 0-25 cm |
| Larghezza Massima | Tappezzanti (virtualmente infinita) |
| Innaffiatura | Regolare (aspettando che asciughi tra una e l'altra) |
| Zona_USDA | 4a  Info Zona USDA |
Data di consegna
| Vettore | Informazioni | Consegna |
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in 24/48h dalla presa in carico del corriere |
