Description

Add texture and seasonal color to your pond or water garden with Carex acutiformis (Lesser Pond Sedge). This versatile sedge features grey-green leaves that deepen to a rich green as they mature, with stunning reddish tones in the autumn, offering seasonal interest. Found naturally in shallow waters and along pond margins across the British Isles, it thrives in damp, aquatic conditions, making it an ideal choice for enhancing wetland areas or the edges of your pond. Its graceful, arching foliage provides both beauty and a habitat for local wildlife.

• Leaf Color: Grey-green that turns greener with age, and reddish in autumn
• Ideal For: Shallow waters, pond margins, and wetland gardens
• Native To: The British Isles
• Growing Conditions: Prefers moist, well-drained soil and full sun to partial shade
• Perfect For: Pond edges, naturalistic landscapes, and wildlife-friendly gardens

The Lesser Pond Sedge adds a natural, dynamic element to your water garden, offering both beauty and ecological benefits year-round.

Repotting or planting

9cm marginal plants require potting into a larger mesh basket. Place in a pond no deeper than 1/3 maximum recommended planting depth to allow the plants to establish. 1ltr marginal plants do not require repotting, place in the pond no deeper than 1/2 maximum recommended planting depth to allow the plants to establish, plants over 60cm height growth will benefit from repotting into a larger mesh basket or should be planted in gravel to prevent them from falling over. 3ltr and 5ltr plants do not require repotting, as they are larger more established plants they can be placed up to the maximum recommended depth. There is no need to remove the mesh basket.

Care instructions

Little maintenance is required. Trim just above the water surface after foliage has died back in Autumn to tidy.

Colour

Brown

Growth rate

Medium

Flowers

May- Aug

Sun/shade

Full sun to part shade

Native

Season

Spring-Summer

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min -Max

60-90

Depth Min-Max

0-15