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Let's Hear it For Briza media

Let's Hear it For Briza media

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Mar 8th 2024

This fun, long-lived, easy-to-grow beauty deserves a little noise.The botanical embodiment of "easy, breezy, beautiful",Briza media engages the admirer with whimsical heart-shaped pendant flowers swaying from spikes a foot or more above the clump-forming foliage. So appealing, the highly decorative flowers are often used as cut stems or in dried arrangements.Fun and functional, Briza media is a cold-friendly, long-lived grass. Hardy for Zones 4-10, mature plants are nicely sized, growing to just
Carve an Easy Edge with Versatile Carex morrowii

Carve an Easy Edge with Versatile Carex morrowii

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Feb 29th 2024

Icy cool, variegated, Carex morrowiiIt looks, grows, and sells like a grass, but it's actually a sedge, in the Cyperaceae family.Easy to grow.Adaptable to a wide range of conditions.Versatile! Useful as a border, groundcover, or in containers. Well suited for full sun to part shade, both varieties are hardy for Zones 5-9. Carex m.'Ice Dance'Wide, graceful leaves with prominent creamy-white margins.Height: 12-18"Carex m. 'Ice Ballet'  PP20228Green-centered leaves with crisp, clean white ed
Big, Graceful, Gracillimus

Big, Graceful, Gracillimus

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Feb 22nd 2024

Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus'This IS your grandfather's ornamental grass!An original, and still a champion.An oldie, and still a goodie.One of the earliest cultivars of Miscanthus, 'Gracillimus' has graced American gardens since the early 1900s. All these years later, it is still swoon-worthy, still a top seller, and still the standard.Stately clumps of slender green leaves with gleaming silver midribs grow to 7 feet tall. In October, the reddish bronze inflorescences gradually turn to silve
Dino-mite! Begonia T-Rex™ from Terra Nova

Dino-mite! Begonia T-Rex™ from Terra Nova

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Feb 16th 2024

The T-REX™ series, from the world-class breeders at Terra Nova Nurseries, is like nothing else you can pot up. They’re guaranteed to turn heads wherever their bold leaves and cool flowers are deployed. They make gorgeous containers, indoors or out, and are equally at home in full shade in the border.Pictured at top: 'Painter's Palette' PP25017Silvery purple leaves with a raspberry blush and deep, dark centers.Mature height: 16"'Saint Nick' PP26811Palmate leaves are splashed with rose, purpl
We're big on small grasses! Carex EverColor Series®

We're big on small grasses! Carex EverColor Series®

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Feb 8th 2024

Our customers and yours are especially fond of the fun EverColor® series by FitzGerald Nurseries of Kilkenny, Ireland. Pat Fitzgerald has selected some nifty variations and variegations of this versatile, sturdy genus. He describes his creations as “colorful, multifunctional, and easy.”These well-behaved sedges form sturdy, compact, uniform mounds of glossy blades in a nifty range of easy-to-use sizes and colors. Flowers are subtle and inconspicuous. On the oshimensis types, they become interest

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