Description

Create a stunning and versatile groundcover with Carex flacca (Blue Sedge). Known for its low, creeping mounds of narrow, blue-green, grass-like leaves, this hardy sedge thrives in a wide variety of conditions, making it an adaptable choice for different garden settings. Whether used to cover the ground or as an edging plant, its unique blue-green foliage adds both texture and color to your landscape. Perfect for damp areas or as a contrast plant in drier spots, it’s a reliable, low-maintenance addition to any garden.

• Foliage Color: Blue-green, grass-like leaves
• Growth Habit: Low, creeping mound
• Ideal For: Groundcover, pond edges, and damp or dry areas
• Growing Conditions: Tolerates a wide range of conditions, including full sun to partial shade
• Perfect For: Naturalistic gardens, borders, and erosion control

The Blue Sedge is a versatile and attractive plant that provides both beauty and function to your garden or water feature.

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

Blue

Growth rate

Slow

Flowers

May- Aug

Sun/shade

Full sun to part shade

Season

Spring-Summer

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min -Max

15-30

Depth Min-Max

0-15