• Eventual Height: 80cm
  • Eventual Spread: 45cm

Greater Woodrush

Luzula sylvatica

available within 1 week. size: 2 litre pot

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  • Position: full sun to deep shade
  • Soil: poor to moderately-fertile,humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: fast-growing
  • Flowering period: April to June
  • Flower colour: chestnut-brown
  • Hardiness: fully hardy

    Clusters of chestnut-brown flowers from April to June above clumps of glossy, grass-like, dark green leaves. This tussock-forming, evergreen grass is excellent groundcover for moist, shady areas of the garden. Fast-growing and hardy, it’s an ideal companion for shade-loving woodland plants and ferns.

  • Garden care: Lift and dividecongested colonies between April and June.

  • Goes well with: Dryopteris felix-mas, Polygonatum odoratum,Epimedium grandiflorum ‘Lilafee’, Euphorbia amygdaloidesvar. robbiae, Dryopteris erythrosora, Sarcococca confusa