This handsome plant can be used as an avenue or specimen tree or it can be pruned or pinched back to shrub size and planted in a patio, near an entryway or as a screen. It readily adjusts to container life, and is equally at ease indoors and grown by cuttings or seeds in early spring. Group planting of Umbrella Sedge will give feature and variety of form in a modern landscape. Perennial evergreen member’s of the grass family. These vary in height from 50 cm-1 m and spread 30-50 cm. upright, bare. Slender stems are crowned with strap-like bright green leaves, radiating like umbrella ribs. Small greenish brown flower spike lets appear among the foliage. Hard in cool to subtropical regions, given at least half a day sunlight’s and shelter from strong wind. Plants can yellow off in cold months.
Moisture-loving plants by nature. The umbrella sedges grow happily at the edges of pools. Ponds or streams with their roots submerged in water. They also do well in average garden conditions like as in rock, pebble or Japanese garden around the base of a bird baths, in pots or planter boxes. Easily to grown dwarfs. Often self sown, they have few demands once established: apart from removal of dead or broken stems. When plants become too large or jaded, divide, discards centers, and replant healthy outer divisions in spring. Water well until re-established.
