Carex Testacea

Ornamental Tussock

One of NZ's most popular landscape plants, with its attractive rusty red foliage and tolerance of dry conditions making it exceptionally useful. The graceful weeping foliage and brick orange colour look great planted en masse and in rockeries. If plants get straggly, dig up, tease in half and cut back to 5cm. Feed in Spring.

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