This grass is appropriately named with seed heads that resemble a bottle-brush. It is a cool season grass that actively grows during the spring and autumn, when soil temperatures are cool. It provides texture and interest in shaded areas, and is ideal for planting under oaks and other deciduous trees that allow some light through. ... Learn More

Wiry, glaucous green, knitting needle leaves, with terminal tufted seed heads radiating from a dense clump, make this form of Juncus patens a perfect addition to any architectural garden. ... Learn More

This robust, rapid-growing plant produces dense clumps of erect, blue-green, needle-like leaves topped with trusses of reddish flowers. Perfect around a pond or in a large container, it survives whether wet or dry. ... Learn More

A charismatic and unusual dwarf 'Rush' producing bright green clumps of iris-like foliage, which produce truly impressive dark brown, almost black seed heads perched on the top of each leaf, which with a little imagination could be a swarm of flying hedgehogs! It is astonishingly adaptable, perfect for planting in shallow water at a pond's edge, but thriving in damp or wet soil, and even putting up a brave display in ordinary moist garden soil, where it will provide interest all summer long. ... Learn More

This attractive dwarf rush with unusually soft stems and seed heads was originally collected from the South African mountains. In cultivation it makes a long-lived, evergreen trouble-free clump. ... Learn More

Thick, dark green, pith-filled stems, terminate in stabbingly-sharp points. These are adorned with clusters of cream flowers which mature to crimson-brown seed capsules. Originally collected on damp hillsides on the island of Mallorca, this is one of the largest ornamental rushes we have seen. ... Learn More

Strong green needle-leaves erupt from a solid basal clump. One of the larges "rushes" you can grow. These are traditionally grown at the waterside, but this one does perfectly well in an ordinary garden here. ... Learn More

An absolutely new and unique plant to the garden scene. Sharp, blue- green needles, with unusually large, attractive tassels of brown seed capsules near their ends, radiate from a central clump. Making quite a stunning hardy, trouble-free specimen in the garden, it is also perfect in a container, or even as a house-plant. ... Learn More

Most rushes grow by water. This was discovered, thriving, on a scorching hot mountain terrace high in the mountains of Gran Canaria. Stiff, pointed, silvery green, needle-like leaves radiating from a solid rosette. ... Learn More

A very lively dwarf rush with most attractive globular heads of dark brown seedheads. Extremely adaptable, growing in all conditions from bog to desert! ... Learn More

This is one of the most attractive hardy grasses, barely yet discovered by gardeners. Being an inhabitant of alpine meadows, it produces its striking heads of almost pure white flowers in early spring, when most other grasses are barely sprouting, all above compact trusses of attractive hairy stems. ... Learn More

A delicate clump-forming rush with small dark brown heads. Another dwarf plant ideal for a wet spot in the garden or around the edges of a pond. ... Learn More

A most attractive, trouble free, tussock-forming specimen with attractive, slightly hairy leaves and large, dark nut-brown umbels of seed. 'The largest and finest of the woodrushes.' (Rick Darke, 'Ornamental Grasses'). ... Learn More

This new, very precious, golden-leaved form of the "Great Wood-rush" makes a superb, non-spreading specimen that will grow almost anywhere, making a handsome clump of golden-yellow foliage with attractive spikes of black seed-heads, that is the perfect complement to mixed perennials. It is at home on most soils, but is particularly tolerant of damp sites, making it ideal for use in bog gardens. It also makes a good plant for winter containers in cold areas as the foliage is evergreen. ... Learn More

This choice little New Zealand dwarf is ideal to incorporate into a trough or the rock garden as long as it doesn't dry out. It grows as neat clumps of stiff green leaves which are covered in silvery hairs below, giving a two-tone effect as the upper and lower leaves react to the light. Heads of grassy flowers appear in early summer on short stalks, the flowers first appearing as pale brown, before finally becoming almost black with age. ... Learn More