![]() ![]() AMPELODESMOS MAURITANICA
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Poaceae
HP
6-7ft
The "Mauritanian Vine-Reed" was indeed used to tie up vines, and is a superb focal point for a sunny spot. Large, one-sided, brown panicles on striking upright stems rise up from a non-s...
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£2.15 / packet
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BRIZA MAXIMA
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Gramineae
HA
12-18in
"Quaking Grass". An attractive and lovely annual grass bearing large trembling lockets on many stems. Gently self-seeds, moving around the garden until it finds a place where it is happ...
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£1.50 / packet
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![]() ![]() BRIZA MEDIA
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Poaceae
HP
12in
The ever popular "Perennial Quaking Grass" is ideal either as a spot plant or a cut flower. Long lived and hardy, the massed heads of pendant flowers move and actually rattle in the sligh...
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£1.75 / packet
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BRIZA MEDIA LIMOUZI
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Poaceae
HP
2ft
This new and quite distinctive taller form of the normal "perennial quaking grass" (Briza media) has stems which are almost double the usual length, whilst the most attractive clump retai...
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£2.45 / packet
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![]() ![]() BRIZA SUBARISTATA
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Poaceae
HP
12in
"Chilean Quaking Grass". We collected this new grass from the foothills of Volcano Antuco on our Chilean Seed Expedition in 1994 (RB94154). Nodding panicles of seedheads, some plants ev...
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£1.85 / packet
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![]() ![]() CALAMAGROSTIS BRACHYTRICHA
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Poaceae
HP
3-4ft
"Korean feather reed grass" Flower heads open tinted red and pink before fading to silver-grey, when they last well into winter and are ideal for drying and cutting. Makes a tight, non...
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£2.20 / packet
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CAREX BOOTTIANA
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Cyperaceae
HP
18-24in
The New Zealand mountains are the home of this attractive specimen plant which flaunts strong, pleated, grey-green leaves above which arise bull-rush-like (reed-mace to be precise) brown seed heads.
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£2.25 / packet
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![]() ![]() CAREX BUCHANANII
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Cyperacae
HP
18-24in
Dense, erect tussocks of copper-bronze make this one of the most sought after and grown architectural plants. Makes a stunning effect with contrasting flowers or silver foliage plants.
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£1.75 / packet
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CAREX CHATHAMICA
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CYPERACEAE
HP
18in
A gorgeous new grass from the beaches of the Chatham Islands of New Zealand. Strong stems hold broad, metallic blue-green blades with silvery undersides and large terminal brown seed heads. Makes ...
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£2.55 / packet
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![]() ![]() CAREX 'COMAN'S BRONZE'
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Cyperaceae
HP
12in
A delightful tufted plant producing an evergreen clump of whippy, bronzed reddish leaves. One of the desirable, often expensive grasses - but easily grown from seed.
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£1.95 / packet
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