Group/Class:  EverColor Series

Brand:  Southern Living

Description:

A vigorous, mound forming evergreen plant that presents vivid golden yellow foliage with contrasting lime green stripes; makes quite a statement as an accent in the border, or as a mass groundcover

Ornamental Features

EverColor® Everoro Japanese Sedge is primarily valued in the garden for its cascading habit of growth. Its attractive grassy leaves remain yellow in colour with prominent lime green stripes and tinges of gold throughout the year.

Landscape Attributes

EverColor® Everoro Japanese Sedge is an herbaceous evergreen perennial grass with a shapely form and gracefully arching stems. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It has no significant negative characteristics.

EverColor® Everoro Japanese Sedge is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Border Edging
• General Garden Use
• Groundcover
• Naturalizing And Woodland Gardens

Planting & Growing

EverColor® Everoro Japanese Sedge will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 14 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 16 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 10 years. As an evegreen perennial, this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.

This plant does best in partial shade to shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. Consider applying a thick mulch around the root zone in both summer and winter to conserve soil moisture and protect it in exposed locations or colder microclimates. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.