Evergreen Grasses

Carex 'Frosted Curls' is a very distinctive ornamental grass with pale silvery-green leaves that curl gracefully towards the ground, delicately softening any landscape. This highly decorative grass is one of the most beautiful ornamental grasses for the garden.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Silver-Green
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Carex testacea form a low, cascading mound of narrow, arching, olive-green leaves turning coppery-brown in summer and adding warm, orange tints in winter. Inconspicuous brown flower spikes are produced in early summer whose stems droop gracefully as they age.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Coppery-Orange
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.7m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Frosy Hardy (Needs Winter Protection)
• Flowers: July to August
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

'Charlie Boy' is a fabulous strikingly variegated cordyline with burgundy leaves edged in cerise pink. It has a strong stem which becomes more noticeable as the plant ages. That's because as the new growth is produced at the top of the stem, some of the lower leaves are shed.

Characteristics:

• Colour: Bright Pink & Deep Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H 3m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Half-Hardy (Needs Winter Protection)
• Flowers: July to August
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Phormium 'Jester' is a clump-forming, evergreen perennial with linear, upright, pink leaves with bright green margins and, on occasion, tubular, dull red flowers borne on erect stems in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial Grass
• Colour: Green/Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Phormium 'Pink Stripe' is a clump-forming, evergreen perennial bearing broad, linear, upright to pendulous, leathery, dark bronze-green leaves with wide, bright pink margins and, on occasion, panicles of tubular, burgundy flowers borne on erect, leafless stems in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen
• Colour: Green with Pink Edges
• Max. Height & Spread: H-2m x S-1.5m
• Hardiness: Frost Hardy (May Need Winter Protection)
• Flowers: July
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Phormium 'Cream Delight' is an evergreen, architectural perennial with long, strap shaped leaves. Foliage is marked with a broad central cream band, and narrower cream stripes towards the edges.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Cream, Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy, but tender in frost
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Cordyline 'Pink Passion' is an incedibly showy evergreen shrub with arching, sword-like, ray-purple leaves adorned with bold pink margins. Unlike many Cabbage Palms, this cultivar has a low, clump-forming habit, producing lots of new stems from the base once the main stem reaches 1m.

Superb architectural shrub for containers, or a focal point in a courtyard garden.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Shrub
• Colour: Ivory
• Height & Spread: H 7m x S 7m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: July to August
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Carex oshimensis 'Everest' is a dense, tufted, evergreen, perennial grass forming a mound of narrow, arching, glossy, dark green leaves with white margins and lax stems bearing brown flower spikes in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Dark Green, White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre Square Pot

'Intense Blue' is a compact, dense, mound-forming, evergreen perennial grass with linear, blue-grey leaves and, in summer, erect stems bearing dense, narrow, blue-green flower spikelets maturing pale brown. Comb through the plant with your fingers in winter to remove dead foliage. Plants may need replacing every few years as they may become tatty-looking.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Blue
• Height & Spread: H 0.3m x 0.2m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June to July
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 5 Litre

'Intense Blue' is a compact, dense, mound-forming, evergreen perennial grass with linear, blue-grey leaves and, in summer, erect stems bearing dense, narrow, blue-green flower spikelets maturing pale brown. Comb through the plant with your fingers in winter to remove dead foliage. Plants may need replacing every few years as they may become tatty-looking.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Blue
• Height & Spread: H 0.3m x 0.2m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June to July
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Phormium tenax 'Evening Glow' is an evergreen perennial forming a clump of strap-shaped leaves that are predominately red with pink, bronze and purple variegations. Its foliage is upright and gently arching.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Bronze/Red/Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Stipa tenuissima 'Pony Tails' or 'Mexican Feather Grass' is an exceptionally lovely and graceful ornamental grass which exhibits silvery-green thread-like leaves in late spring. All summer, it bears abundant feathery panicles, which are held a little above the foialge and can be used in dry arangements.

Characteristics:

• Type: Semi-Evergreen
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June to September
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance' is a semi-evergreen Japanese Sedge forming a low, slow-spreading tufted mound of narrow, arching, shiny, dark green leaves adorned with bright white edges. In late spring, it bears inconspicuous brown flower spikes on long stems.

Attractive both in shape and foilage, this highly decorative grass is one of the most beautiful ornamental grasses for the garden, where it provides a lovely contrast with other plants, mulch or gravel.

Characteristics:

• Type: Semi-Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Green/White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.3m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre