New Zealand Red Hook Sedge
Department of agriculture hardiness zones 8 through 11.
New zealand red hook sedge. Hook sedge is a native of australia and new zealand. The common name is new zealand red hook sedge and it is a showy addition with its shiny red bronze foliage. Tight compact erect clumps of stiff arching crimson bronze blades from which arise narrow spikes of small sharply pointed black seeds. It forms clumps and thrives in damp well.
Uncinia firedance will brighten the rock garden mixed border and it also looks great in. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about uncinia hawaii birdcatching sedge hook sedge red new zealand hook sedge uncinia uncinata rubra supplied by member gardeners in. In a well drained border makes a superb statement. Uncinia egmontiana seeds orange hook sedge plant world seeds.
Uncinia firedance will brighten the rock garden mixed border and it also looks great in. Insignificant flowers eventually turn into hooked seeds. The common name is new zealand red hook sedge and it is a showy addition with its shiny red bronze foliage. Jan 20 2016 uncinia rubra everflame from van meuwen.
Rubra is a tufted evergreen perennial sedge to 30cm with glossy reddish green or red brown leaves and dark brown to black flower spikes in summer plant range new zealand. 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. It will do well in soggy areas and around water features and ponds. Red hook sedge uncinia rubra has maroon leaves and grows 8 to 15 inches tall and wide in u s.
Inconspicuous brown flower spikes are produced in early summer whose stems droop gracefully as they age. This ornamental sedge grows best in full to partial sun and in damp rich soil. From new zealand this highly ornamental grass forms tussocks of foliage all year round. Red hook sedge grass.
Uses an easy carefree plant for groundcover to tuck in a rock garden or used to neatly edge a border patio or path. Contributed by dammers1981. It will do well in soggy areas and around water features and ponds. Full sun to partial shade.