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We stock plants based on our growers availability lists. Please call us at (302) 239-2727 to confirm we have the plants you want in stock.
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Common Name: Variegated Sweet Flag
Variegated Sweet Flag has grass-like foliage with a slowly spreading growth habit. Its 8-10" blades form fans like those of Iris and will remain evergreen in warmer climates. The flowers are inconspicuous and the plants are grown mainly for their foliage. Sweet Flag likes boggy conditions and can be grown in shallow water at pond edge, but is also at home in an average garden, though less vigorous. A great choice for a spiky texture in mixed containers!
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Common Name: Big Bluestem
The king of native grasses, Big Bluestem has handsome gray to blue-green stems in spring turning to green alternating with deep red in summer then to coppery red in fall. Three fingered seed heads top tall stems in August. Clump forming with excellent drought tolerance once established. Andropogon gerardii can be found in moist meadows and along side roads and rivers from Canada to Mexico.
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Common Name: Broom Sedge
An easy-to-grow clump forming native warm saeson grass with incredible golden copper fall color. A pioneer soil stabalizing plant that does well in poor, infertile areas and surprisingly in floodplains. It's wonderful for xeriscaping, in coastal areas, fall and winter cut stems and restoration.
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Common Name: Korean Feather Reed Grass
Calamagrostis brachytricha is a clump-forming, warm season grass with bright green leaves reaching about 2 feet. In late summer blooms emerge with a pink tint and reach 3 to 4 feet. The feathery flowers fade to cream in fall and finish in a straw color in winter. A graceful addition to the shade or part shade garden! One of the few flowering grasses that is happy in the shade. Wonderful for cut flowers.
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Common Name: Feather Reed Grass
A bright form of C. 'Karl Forester' selected by Steve Schmidt for its wide, white stripe in the center and for the creamy flowers that appear in mid summer and turn to golden straw in fall. ANn excellent cool season grass that is especially striking when mass planted. A brighter and more vigorous selection than C. 'Overdam'.
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Common Name: Feather Reed Grass
One of the most popular garden grasses in the world, Karl Foerster is known for its ease of culture, tidy vertical habit and beautiful feathery blooms. In mid summer flowers open a creamy white tinged with pink. As they age they become narrow plumes of golden straw and last well into winter.
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Common Name: Creek Sedge
Carex amphibola is a widely adaptable native sedge naturally occurring from Texas to Quebec and Georgia to New Hampshire. The compact and semi-erect mound has proven to be semi evergreen (zone 6b) and prefers deciduous shade in upland or even floodplain conditions; easily adapts to fine or medium textured soils. Creek Sedge lends itself well to native shade gardens, along wood paths or as a slope stabilizer. It is a vigorous clump former with shiny, narrow green foliage 1/8" wide by up to 12" long. C. amphibola is an excellent companion for Phlox divaricata, Asarum, Chrysogonum and Polygonatum...among others!
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Common Name: Appalachian Sedge
This lovely sedge is native to the dry woods of eastern North America. Its fine texture and fountaining habit make it a lovely groundcover in dry shady sites, even in the root zone of trees. Its tidy clumping habit makes it a perfect feature in a container, rock or stump, or in a border planting along a walkway.
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Common Name: Gold Fountain Sedge
This shade loving sister of C. 'Evergold' is bright gold with attractive narrow (1/4" ) foliage almost all year. Striking, long-lived and reliable. Works well in average garden conditions and in containers.
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Common Name: bristleleaf sedge
A wonderful naturalizer, Carex eburnea is the ideal native groundcover for the woodland or rock garden. Petite colonies of 6-8 inch long soft, thread-like foliage takes on a spherical shape as inconspicuous whitish-green flower spikes appear in early spring.
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Common Name: Emory's Sedge
A wetland native that forms dense tussocks of straw-colored leaves at the base with bright green new growth emerging from the top. An emergent aquatic, C. emoryi is found on shores, stream banks, wet meadows, and seepage areas from Newfoundland south to Virginia and from Manitoba south to eastern Oaklahoma and Texas.
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Common Name: Blue Zinger Sedge
This Emerald Coast intrduction is indeed an improvement over the species. It is much more light blue than what we'd previously grown. Excellent and versatile shade groundcover for dry or moist spots. Cool season, evergreen in warm climates, more clump forming than C. flacca
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Common Name: Bunny Blue Sedge
Bunny Blue Carex is a low growing, evergreen, native sedge with silver-blue foliage. Use as a ground cover or specimen plant for moist to average shady areas. Native plant.
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Common Name: Japanese Sedge
A bright groundcover for a shady spot, Ice Dance has long shiny leaves trimmed in bright white. It spreads slowly to fill in and make a tidy cover that discourages weeds. Deer and disease resistant, it is long-lasting and easy to grow!
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Common Name: Japanese Sedge
A beautiful selection of this sedge, this one has narrow (1/4") leaves with white margins, giving it a very fine texture overall. Rhizomatous, forming thick silvery clumps. A bright addition to the shade palette!
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Common Name: Variegated Palm Sedge
A sport found in the garden of Wolfgong Oheme by Tony Avent, this sedge emerges as light green, but soon clear yellow edges appear. The foliage radiated horizontally on top of 12"-18" stems, resembling a small palm tree. A great native substitute for dwarf variegated bamboo. Spreads slowly and tolerates a wide variety of conditions. Found in moist meadows and along streams in the central US.
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Common Name: Golden Sedge
Fountains of narrow leaves with broad cream stripes adorn this clump-forming, shade-loving grass. Evergold is lovely spilling over into a path or as an architectural feature in a container or window box. Deer and disease resistant, it is long-lasting and easy to grow!
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Common Name: Pennsylvania Sedge
With its tough disposition and spreading habit, this native grass makes an excellent shade groundcover. Fine texture and fountaining habit give this sedge a soft appearance that is lovely as an underplanting for bolder shade perennials or on its own as a shade lawn. Great in containers too! Easy to grow. Happiest in the company of Oaks, but who isn't?
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Common Name: Seersucker Sedge
Shiny deep green leaves are unusually broad (to 1 1/8") and puckered like Christmas ribbon. An excellent, mostly evergreen (the basal foliage overwinters) groundcover for average to moist shade, provides unique texture. Flowers occur in early to mid-spring, thin and black-tipped, not especially showy. Found in moist woods from Canada to Alabama.
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Common Name: Silver Sedge
A spectacular new clump-froming sedge with powder blue leaves up to an inch or more wide. Spreads slowly to form a wonderfully textured groundcover in moist or average soil. Tolerates dry shade once established. An early spring haircut makes room for clean new growth. Great for deciduous shade.
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Common Name: Broad-Leaf Sedge
This is a very bright and attractive spreading groundcover. Wide bright green leaves with distinct white stripes form slowly spreading clumps. It is completely deciduous, often emerging just when you wonder if it has made it through the winter. Noted plantsman Charles Oliver has had this in his zone 5 garden for 10 years. At 8-10", it is an excellent groundcover or edging for the shade garden.
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Common Name: Tussock Sedge
A wetland native that forms dense tussocks of straw-colored leaves at the base with bright green new growth emerging from the top. Spreads via rhizomes. Found in wet meadows. Emergent aquatic.
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Common Name: New Zealand Hair Sedge
Vibrant foliage emerges a rich red brown and transitions to a coppery brown with age, often accented with bright orange tips. Come autumn, the red tones return, often accented with oranges and yellows. Listed as zone 7, we have seen it survive two winters in our zone Pennsylvania 6b.
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Common Name: Northern Sea Oats
A versatile native grass with bamboo-like foliage and delightful nodding seed heads that rustle in the breeze from late summer to winter. It grows in most sites and is a quite vigorous groundcover when given consistent moisture and sun. It is better behaved in average garden conditions and in shade. A unique cut flower in fresh or dry arrangements.
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Common Name: Wavy Hair Grass
A delightful and elegant native, this diminutive grass thrives in dry shade. Fine-textured and delicate in appearance, it is tough and drought tolerant, ideal for planting in any well-drained shady location as a groundcover or member of the border. In spring it is topped with graceful feathery flowers that are lovely moving quietly in the breeze.
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Common Name: Blue Lyme Grass
This is a very tough plant that is much more heat tolerant than other selections. Very beautiful bright blue blades that push upward and outward. It is vogorous and stoloniferous, and will often be a bit pushy in a regular garden situation, but does well around shrubs and trees.
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Common Name: Purple Love Grass
Fluffy clouds of bronze-red inflorescenses are soft and subtle in the sunlight. Light green foliage in summer turning to a bronzy-red in fall. Irresistable texture plant for the late summer garden.
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Common Name: Blue Fescue
Clumping deep sea blue foliage. The most heat tolerant or 'summer hardy'Fescue by leaps and bounds. Named by the late Lois Woodhall of the Plantage. Neat evergreen mounds with wheat inflorescences. Stunning!
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Common Name: Hakon Grass
This exceptionally elegant grass deserves a spot in every garden with its graceful habit and easy culture. Narrow stripes of creamy white accent each deep green leaf providing a bright glimmer as the leaves sway gently in the breeze. Taller than other selections, 'Albo Variegata' is also more vigorous and should be planted in groups of three or more for best effect. It is very tolerant of sun if the soil does not dry out, but may be happiest in a bright shaded spot. Airy flowers appear in late summer as the foliage becomes tipped in pink.
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Common Name: Many-Flowered Sunflower
Certainly the most handsome of the perennial sunflowers, a favorite of our
good friend Dr. Richard Lighty. Clean deep green leaves give way to large,
single, bright yellow flowers that are reminiscent of annual sunflowers with
their wide centers. Refreshing and attractive...especially to butterflies and bees.
A cross between H. annuus and H. decapetalus.
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Common Name: Soft Rush
Juncus effusus is a clump forming wetland plant that is a striking vertical addition to any garden or container planting. Upright, fanning, deep green, rounded stems make a great accent in a container or water garden. Soft Rush can be planted at the edge of a pond or in up to 6" of standing water. Inconspicuous golden flowers appear atop the stems in summer. Native to most of North America, Soft Rush provides food and shelter for birds and other wildlife. Distribution Map
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Common Name: Pink Muhly Grass
This native's tidy clumps of very fine blue foliage provide color and texture to the garden, but in late summer or fall they explode into bloom with clouds of airy pink flowers that last for many weeks. Stunningly beautiful, even in heat, humidity or drought!
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Common Name: Mexican Feather Grass
The narrow green blades of this southwestern native form a tidy fountaining clump. In early summer silvery cream-colored flowers open to resemble downy feathers that sway gently with the breeze. In fall the flowers turn amber and remain attractive through winter. Not tolerant of winter wet.
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Common Name: Switch Grass
This smooth, blue tinted grass can grow as tall as 4' and spreads slowly through it's rhizome growth forming clumps. It was selected for its glaucous blue color, and graceful fountain habit. The flowers are airy, emerging in the fall, and persistingas a light beige color throughout the winter. Selected and named, by Rick Darke, for the lower Delaware beach town that bears its name. Native along the shores from Liousiana to Connecticut. It is adapted to dry, sterile locations where it plays an important role in stabilizing.
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Common Name: Switch Grass
An upright landscape grass with lovely blue green foliage that turns yellow in fall. In late summer airy wheat-colored flowers appear and remain attractive well into fall. It is an undemanding native grass suitable to any soil type. Tough and easy to grow!
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Common Name: Switch Grass
A large and stately native grass with a vase-shaped habit and sturdy upright blades. In late summer it blooms in huge clouds of silvery fawn that remain attractive into the winter. Simply spectacular waving in the breeze!
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Common Name: Switch Grass
Selected by Ken and Linda Smith of Change of Scenery Nursery in Columbus,
Ohio. This variety has a deeper pink, fuller shape and wider blades than
others, not unlike Miscanthus with huge, basketball sized (2' or more !) flower
heads with a layered habit that are more substantial and longer lasting than
other switchgrass cultivars, offering better winter interest.
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Common Name: Blue Switch Grass
A compact upright landscape grass with blue foliage and a tidy habit. In late summer airy silvery flowers appear and remain attractive well into fall. It is an undemanding native grass suitable to any soil type. Tough and easy to grow!
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Common Name: North Wind Switch Grass
Wow! An unequivocally upright steel blue panicum selected by Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial Farm in Springfield, WI. It was the only one of our 13 trial varieties still standing after Hurricane Floyd! And the drought of '99? No problem. Wide, thick leaf blades are a bit more substantial than those of the other blues. A golden yellow color in the fall.
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Common Name: Red Switch Grass
The brightest red Panicum by a long shot. Experienced horticulturalists have mistaken it for Imperata at first glance. It colors up by June and the flowers are also red. The shortest of the group and also the slowest grower, perhaps due in part to its lack of chlorophyll. This will probably be the most popular Switchgrass ever! Introduced by Dr. Hans Simon of Germany. Nothing comes close to the fall color displayed by this grass!
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Common Name: Fountain Grass
A tidy rounded growth habit and finely textured foliage make this one of the most popular Pennisetum cultivars. Orderly tufts of foliage are topped in late summer with fuzzy cream-colored blooms. A trouble-free and reliable garden plant that provides structural accents.
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Common Name: Dwarf Fountain Grass
A compact growth habit and finely textured foliage make this one of the most popular Pennisetum cultivars. Tidy tufts of foliage are topped in late summer with fuzzy cream-colored blooms. A trouble-free and reliable garden plant.
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Common Name: Mini Fountain Grass
A compact growth habit and finely textured foliage make this one of the most popular Pennisetum cultivars. Tidy tufts of foliage are topped in late summer with fuzzy cream-colored blooms. A trouble-free and reliable garden plant that combines well with shorter summer bloomers.
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Common Name: Black Fountain Grass
A compact growth habit and striking dark blooms make this one of the most popular Pennisetum cultivars. Tidy tufts of foliage are topped in late summer with fuzzy smoky black blooms. A trouble-free and reliable garden plant.
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Common Name: Oriental Fountain Grass
A compact growth habit and finely textured foliage make this one of the most useful landscape grasses. Tidy tufts of foliage are topped in late summer with fuzzy pinkish bunnytail blooms. A trouble-free and reliable garden plant that combines well with any of the smaller summer perennials.
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Common Name: Karley Rose Fountain Grass
A Sunny Border introduction that is head and shoulders better then the species or any other selections we have seen of P. orientale. Delightful fluffy rose pink flowers begin to appear in July and continue to form well into fall. A slowly spreading grass, it is a vigorous and reliable garden plant. Outstanding!
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Common Name: Fountain Grass
One of the easiest and most rewarding plants you can grow in the sunny garden, Pennisetum Foxtrot has silvery plumes that appear in mid summer continue into fall when the foliage takes on fiery tones of orange and red. Its tall stature and prolific bloom make it an excellent feature in a small garden or a great candidate for a drift or modest screen where space allows. Combines beautifully with mid and late summer bloomers like Phlox, Joe Pye and Sunflowers
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Common Name: Little Bluestem
An upright and clump forming native grass with spiky blades of blue or green. Wispy silvery flowers occur in late summer, followed by a spectacular display of fall color changing from green and orange to deep burgundy. Remains attractive as an architectural feature through winter.
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Common Name: Prairie Blues Little Bluestem
From Jelitto Perennial Seeds, Schizachyrium 'Prairie Blues' is an improved selection of one of the most prevalent native grasses in the eastern United States. Consistent grey-blue, ribbon-like foliage takes on hues of orange and red as the season transitions to autumn. This warm season grass has sturdy, narrow stems with an upright habit. 'Prairie Blues' thrives in hot, dry areas.
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Common Name: The Blues Little Bluestem
A true blue grass that loves the heat and humidity. In the fall the glowing blue becomes burgundy red and mingles throught the entire clump. Soft seed heads appear, adding a silvery winter effect. Selected by Dr. Richard Lighty, introduced by Tony Avent, and blessed by Kurt Bluemel.
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Common Name: Wool Grass
A large, upright marsh grass with attractive wooly inflorescences that turn coppery in late summer and persist into winter.
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Common Name: Soft Stemmed Bullrush
Obligate wetland plant for inland shallow waters, non-tidal marshes and wildlife. Large triangular dark green stems with brownish inflorescences hang
pendulously from spring to fall. Stems are unusually spongy. Emergent aquatic.
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Common Name: Indian Grass
A vigorous native warm season grass with bluish green foliage turning a translucent yellow-deep gold fall color and bearing beautiful panicles of copper. Excellent for cut flowers.
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Metallic blue foliage, upright. Very attractive golden fall color. Selected at Longwood Gardens. Excellent for cut flowers.
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Common Name: Prarie Dropseed
According to wild Niel Dibol, of Prairie Nursery, Westfield, WI, it is "often considered to be the most handsome of the prairie grasses. It makes a well defined and very distinctive border when planted 18-24" apart." Fine textured, deep green foliage with lovely, light and airy flowers to 2 1/2" in September and October. Flowers have a slight fragrance similar to coriander. Often has glowing pumpkin orange fall color. Good drought tolerance.
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