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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
Icy Cool, Variegated Carex morrowii

Icy Cool, Variegated Carex morrowii

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Sep 14th 2023

It 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.Carex m. 'Ice Dance'Wide, graceful leaves with prominent creamy-white margins.Height: 12-18" Well suited for full sun to part shade, both varieties are hardy for Zones 5-9. Carex m. 'Ice Ballet' PP20228Green-centered leaves with crisp, clean white edges, wider and brighter than those on oth
Hosts of Hosta Hit Prime Time

Hosts of Hosta Hit Prime Time

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Aug 4th 2023

HOSTA: Shipping Now!Advance your perennial program with a host of low-maintenance, easy-to-grow Hosta varieties. Available in a broad spectrum of sizes, forms, and gorgeous foliage colors, this landscape essential is one of the top-selling genera in North America.Don't miss this hot commodity! Start now! Great growers and gardeners know warm-season planting allows time for full, mature development prior to winter rest. Next spring, you'll reap the rewards of planning and planting ahead with fat
Another ... Crave Worthy Carex Collection - CAREX oshimensis

Another ... Crave Worthy Carex Collection - CAREX oshimensis

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Apr 19th 2023

We're big fans of Carex. Our 32 varieties - yes, 32 varieties! - occupy four pages of our catalog. We're hooked!The EverColor® Series brings year-round color to market with these cold hardy, evergreen selections. Versatile, and easy to grow, for ever-colorful containers, living walls, and gardens.Indulge us as we brag on a trio of our favorite Japanese sedge. Pictured above - Carex o. EverColor® 'Everest' PP20955 Shapely green blades with snowy white edges. Low maintenance, mounding f
A Crave Worthy Carex Collection

A Crave Worthy Carex Collection

Posted by Emerald Coast Growers on Apr 12th 2023

We're big fans of Carex. Our 32 varieties - yes, 32 varieties! - occupy four pages of our catalog. We're hooked! Indulge us as we brag on some of our favorites.Shown above, Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)North American Native. An excellent groundcover. Foliage is soft and curls gently, turning pale brown for the winter.This is a multi-talented group whose members shine as individuals or in masses. Carex can edge borders and fill containers. It can be "green mulch" or a law

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