Grass Specifications
- Season: Perennial
- USDA Zones: 6 - 9
- Height: 12 inches
- Width: 12 inches
- Foliage Color: Pale green
- Flower Color: Pale brown
- Growth Rate: Moderate
- Fall Color: Silvery
- Soil Requirement: Well-drained soils, pH 5.8 - 6.8
- Environment: Full sun to partial shade in warmer climates
Planting Directions
- Temperature: 64 - 72F
- Average Germ Time: 21 - 24 days
- Light Required: Yes
- Depth: Sow on to the surface and cover with 1/8 of topsoil
- Sowing Rate: 4 seeds per plant
- Moisture: Keep seeds moist until germination
- Plant Spacing: 18 inches
- Care & Maintenance: See: Carex
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Carex Comans (Frosted Curls) - This ornamental grass is also a dwarf sedge that only grows to approximately 12" tall. It has silvery, dense green clumps, densely tufted for pot, bed, groundcover or border ornamental grass plantings.
Carex Comans, a native ornamental grass of New Zealand, has slender arching, grassy leaves that grows in a wide clump that resembles a fountain. They are silvery-green and seem to shimmer when blown by a breeze or, if planted in pots, resembles falling water with the leaves draped over the pot. Though it resembles an ornamental grass, it comes from a different family all together, and like many of its fellow sedges, is more versatile than ornamental grasses, being tolerant of both full sun and partial sun and moist to almost-wet soils, and not attractive to deer. Also, once estabished, will even tolerate dry soil. The tiny flowers appear in clusters atop thin stems in mid-summer. The narrow leaves give this plant its common name, hair sedge. They are evergreen in warm climates, perennial in colder climates, where they wither and brown in autumn but nonetheless lend color to the winter garden. Remove the brown leaves in late winter to make way for the new leaves in spring.
Grow this plant in sun to partial shade in moist, well-drained soil. Use it for its contrasts of texture and habit in containers, mixed beds and mixed borders. Or plant it as edging for walkways, massed as a groundcover, or as an ornamental grass. Plants live on average about 4 years, so dividing the plants in the Spring will keep the plants looking fresh.
