Carex oshimensis 'Ice Cream'
An 'Evergold' sport with green and creamy-white foliage.
Description:
'Ice Cream' is a sport of the unendingly useful garden classic 'Evergold'. Whereas 'Evergold' sports gold and green striped foliage 'Ice Cream' offers rich green and creamy-white mounds of thin sedgey foliage. The narrow foliage arches into attractive evergreen hummocks and can be used in a the border, near a water feature, in mass plantings, and in pots and planters! Though recommended for average to moist sites I have found it to be quite drought tolerant in shaded areas.
Common Name: Striped Weeping Sedge
Family: Cyperaceae (The Sedge Family)
Zone Hardiness: 5-9
Light: Full Sun, Part Sun, Part Shade
Height: 8-12"
Width: 8-12"
Primary Bloom Colour: Brown
Secondary Bloom Colour:
Class: Evergreen
Type: Grass
Bloom Time: Spring
Soil Moisture: Average, Moist, Dry
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: No
Berries:
Benefits:
Deer Resistant: Unknown
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Dry woods and rocky hillsides.
Award:
Geogrpahical Origin: Asia and the Pacific - Asia - China and Japan
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