Can be shipped.
What are plugs? Plugs are plants grown in 72-cell trays; each soil plug is 1.6” wide x 3.2” deep. Read more here.
Parasol Sedge is a new find—an amazingly short sedge for full-sun gardens! It is 1 foot tall and forms a tight clump. This is the perfect size for planting throughout an entire garden in the matrix garden style. Think of Parasol Sedge, Blue Grama Grass, and Prairie Dropseed grass as the wall paint upon which your paintings, or flowers, are framed. The fine leaves of short grasses provide a softness that helps knit a garden together. From a purely utilitarian standpoint, sedges and grasses like Parasol Sedge fill space in the undergrowth and help reduce the area where weeds can sprout. Their leaves mat down in the fall and provide an annual mulch.
The reason that Parasol Sedge is a Top 3 garden sedge is because it never flops over. Most sedges flop over after they go to seed because the seed heads are tall and heavy. Parasol Sedge, on the other hand, has short seed heads that are practically hidden within the tight mound of fine leaves. This is a really fantastic characteristic and makes it much better to have around short flowering species like Prairie Smoke, Butterfly Milkweed, Prairie Phlox, and Puccoons.
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture: Medium, Medium-Dry, Dry
Height: 1 foot
Blooms: May, June
Color: Green
Spacing: 12”
Zones: 3-7
Benefits: Deer Resistant
Parasol Sedge forms short clumps of leaves that green up early in the spring, right after the snow melts. The seed heads barely grow 6 inches tall! It is great for borders and for planting around short flowering species. Parasol Sedge (Carex umbellata) is a valuable plant that can be scattered throughout a prairie garden to give green growth during the spring when all of the warm-season plants are still dormant and brown.
Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!
Pasque Flower
Prairie Smoke
Butterfly Milkweed
Prairie Phlox
Can be shipped.
What are plugs? Plugs are plants grown in 72-cell trays; each soil plug is 1.6” wide x 3.2” deep. Read more here.
Parasol Sedge is a new find—an amazingly short sedge for full-sun gardens! It is 1 foot tall and forms a tight clump. This is the perfect size for planting throughout an entire garden in the matrix garden style. Think of Parasol Sedge, Blue Grama Grass, and Prairie Dropseed grass as the wall paint upon which your paintings, or flowers, are framed. The fine leaves of short grasses provide a softness that helps knit a garden together. From a purely utilitarian standpoint, sedges and grasses like Parasol Sedge fill space in the undergrowth and help reduce the area where weeds can sprout. Their leaves mat down in the fall and provide an annual mulch.
The reason that Parasol Sedge is a Top 3 garden sedge is because it never flops over. Most sedges flop over after they go to seed because the seed heads are tall and heavy. Parasol Sedge, on the other hand, has short seed heads that are practically hidden within the tight mound of fine leaves. This is a really fantastic characteristic and makes it much better to have around short flowering species like Prairie Smoke, Butterfly Milkweed, Prairie Phlox, and Puccoons.
Perennial
Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade
Moisture: Medium, Medium-Dry, Dry
Height: 1 foot
Blooms: May, June
Color: Green
Spacing: 12”
Zones: 3-7
Benefits: Deer Resistant
Parasol Sedge forms short clumps of leaves that green up early in the spring, right after the snow melts. The seed heads barely grow 6 inches tall! It is great for borders and for planting around short flowering species. Parasol Sedge (Carex umbellata) is a valuable plant that can be scattered throughout a prairie garden to give green growth during the spring when all of the warm-season plants are still dormant and brown.
Great native plant choice for the Minnesota Lawns to Legumes grant program!
Pasque Flower
Prairie Smoke
Butterfly Milkweed
Prairie Phlox
