Description

Add an exotic touch to your garden with Carex muskingumensis ‘Oehme’ (Variegated Palm Sedge). This striking ornamental grass features light green foliage with narrow yellow margins that gradually brighten as it matures. Its graceful leaves radiate outward in a way that mimics the shape of palm fronds, creating a tropical feel in any garden. Perfect for moist, well-drained areas or near water features, this low-maintenance plant adds both texture and vibrant color to your landscape, making it an ideal choice for borders, containers, or aquatic gardens.

• Foliage: Light green with narrow yellow margins, radiating like palm fronds
• Growth Habit: Clump-forming, arching foliage
• Ideal For: Moist, well-drained soil, water gardens, and containers
• Perfect For: Adding texture and color to borders, ponds, and shaded areas
• Growing Conditions: Prefers partial shade to full sun, with regular moisture

The Variegated Palm Sedge is an elegant, low-maintenance plant that brings both tropical allure and architectural beauty to any landscape.

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 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

Slow

Flowers

May- July

Sun/shade

Full sun to part shade

Season

Spring-Summer

Measurements in centimetres

Height Min -Max

40-75

Depth Min-Max

0-20