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Amazon Mist CarexÂ
Carex comans ‘Amazon Mist’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones:Â 7a-9b (6a-10b?)Â Â Find Your Zone
Plant Type:Â Ornamental Grass
Height or Length at Maturity:Â 10-12″
Width at Maturity:Â 12-18″
Spacing:Â 16 inches for mass plantings or solid border/edging; 24 inches or more for space between plants
Spacing:Â 16 inches for mass plantings or solid border/edging; 24 inches or more for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form:Â Arching, Clumping, Mounding
Growth Rate:Â Moderate
Flower Color:Â Inconspicuous
Flower Type:Â Â –
Flower Size:Â Tiny
Flowering Period:Â Summer
Flowering Period:Â Summer
Fragrant Flowers:Â –
Foliage Color:Â Mint, Blue-Green, Silver cast
Fragrant Foliage:Â No
Berries:Â No
Sun Needs:Â Sun, Part Sun, Morning Sun, All Day Filtered Sun
Water Needs:Â Â Average
Soil Type:Â Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage:Â Moist But Well Drained
Soil pH:Â 6.0 – 7.5
Maintenance / Care:Â Low
Attracts:Â Visual attention
Resistances:Â Deer, Disease, Mildew, Heat, Humidity, Insect
Description
Providing an extremely fine and delicate texture resembling a beautiful head of hair, Amazon Mist Carex is a compact ornamental grass featuring very slender blue-green leaves with visible silvery undersides, which makes the fountain-like mound look “misty,” hence the name. Very eye-catching in the landscape or in container gardens, it adds soothing and pleasant texture, form and motion to plantings.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Its clumping rather than spreading growth habit to 12 inches tall and 18 inches wide make Amazon Mist Carex the perfect choice for a border along paths and walkways, for splashes of color in groupings, or in stunning mass plantings in home foundation plantings, landscape borders or on embankments and slopes. It is also effective as an underplanting for shade trees and smaller trees such as Japanese maples. Very nice as a solo in containers or to provide grassy texture and color in combination container gardens. A fine addition to ornamental grass gardens, rock gardens, shade gardens and tropical look gardens. Â
Suggested Spacing:Â 14 to16 inches apart for mass plantings or solid border edging; 24 inches or more apart for space between plants
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Growing Preferences
This Carex is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and part sun, preferably morning sun with afternoon shade. Though it will tolerate full sun in cooler climates, we suggest avoiding direct afternoon sun. Almost maintenance free and slowly forms a clump by spreading roots but is not invasive at all. We rarely fertilize or prune it. In areas that experience colder winters the foliage may need to be groomed or cut back to the ground before new growth emerges in spring. Otherwise, you can use your fingers to simply comb out any brown leaves.Â
Helpful Articles
Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Carex plants.
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