Finely textured, bronze-green leaves age to electric orange in the cool season. The elegant, arching, mounding form is a beautiful evergreen garden accent, ideal for containers, massing in borders or spilling over rocks. Deer and rabbit resistant.

2024年1月18日 · Orange New Zealand hair sedge is very similar to the Bronze New Zealand hair sedge, right down to its water requirements and potential uses in the landscape. It may well be the more popular of the two, though, because its color is more intense.

'Prairie Fire' is creates a fiery display with its upright, slender, green-bronze foliage that is tipped with orange highlights. The color intensifies the more sun the plant gets and persist through the winter in warmer climates, while turning to a red-tinted o5range in cooler climates.

One of the cold-hardier New Zealand Hairy Sedges, Carex testacea forms a low, cascading mound of narrow, arching, olive-green leaves turning coppery-brown in summer and adding warm, orange tints in winter.

Bronzy green in the spring and summer and electric orange in the winter, this Carex is a great one for winter interest in the garden. 'Prairie Fire' has a bit more red in the leaves than the species. Full sun to 18 inches tall and wide. Carex at Portland Nursery and Garden Center in Portland, Vancouver, Lake Oswego.

Carex testacea (Orange Sedge) - A clumping fine-textured evergreen sedge growing 18 to 24 inches tall or slightly more when well irrigated with leaves that arch outward up to 2 feet.

Carex testacea is an evergreen, ornamental grass that forms a gracefully cascading clump of narrow, copper-brown leaves that turn to orange at the tips. Grown for its attractive foliage.

Prairie Fire Sedge has upright, slender, green-bronze foliage tipped with orange highlights; fiery coloring intensifies in full sun. Create a dramatic display in sweeps, blend with hot-colored perennials and yellowgreen shrubs, or use as a focal point in mixed containers.

This species is native to both the North and South Island of New Zealand. The orange color is enhanced when planted in sunny exposures, but avoid hot afternoon sun conditions during summer. It is hardy to cold and does best with regular water throughout the year.

Carex Testacea [KAR-eks, test-uh-SEE-uh] is a deciduous evergreen tufted perennial from the sedge or graminoid family Cyperaceae. This arching ornamental grass is a New Zealand native, earning the common name New Zealand Orange Sedge.