• Eventual Height: 75cm
  • Eventual Spread: 90cm

Leatherleaf Sedge

Carex buchananii

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The coppery-brown leaves of this evergreen grass look strangely like hair. An extremely versatile plant - can be grown as a specimen and in containers. We've even seen it planted in a chic, urban windowbox with Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigresens'. Brown flower spikes in mid - and late summer.

  • Position: full sun or partial shade
  • Soil: moisture retentive soil
  • Rate of growth: average
  • Flowering period: July to September
  • Flower colour: brown
  • Other features: evergreen coppery-brown leaves
  • Hardiness: fully hardy

  • Garden care: Comb through the plant in winter to remove dead foliage
  • Goes well with: Carex comans 'Frosted Curls', Carex morrowii 'Variegata', Euphorbia dulcis 'Chameleon', Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens', Galanthus nivalis, Carex flagillifera