Plant Library - Port Kells Nurseries

Plant Library - Port Kells Nurseries Plant Database Plant Library

The plant varieties listed on this website is for information purposes and does not indicate current availability at Port Kells Nurseries.

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Acorus gramineus 'Ogon'

Sweet Flag Grass - Grassy Leaved Sweet Flag Grass

Clumping cool season grass. Features iris-like tufts of narrow, grass-like, variegated leaf blades which are striped with yellow and green

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Anemanthele lessoniana

Pheasant's Tail Grass - Pheasant's Tail Grass

Clumping cool season Semi evergreen grass. Forms a medium-sized mound of arching green leaves that turn to gold or orange for fall and winter.

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Arundo donax 'Variegata'

Reed Grass - Variegated Giant Reed Grass

An evergreen, warm season reed grass with broadly variegated sword-like leaves.

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Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Avalanche'

Reed Grass - Avalanche Reed Grass

Cool Season. Grass has a slightly arching upright habit and forms a tight clump

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Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Eldorado'

Reed Grass - Eldorado Feather Reed Grass

Clumping cool season grass. Upright clump of narrow green leaves with a bright gold center. Very slender,

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Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'

Reed Grass - Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass

Clumping cool season semi-evergreen grass. Slender, upright, Glossy green foliage that turns golden yellow in the fall.

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Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Overdam'

Reed Grass - Variegated Feather Reed Grass

Clumping cool season semi-evergreen grass. A nice variation to the traditional Feather Reed Grass,

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Carex buchananii

Sedge Grass - Leather Leaf Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Plants form upright clumps of very fine, hair-like red-brown leaves.

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Carex buchananii 'Red Rooster'

Sedge Grass - Red Rooster Leather leaf Sedge

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Has wiry, orange-red-brown foliage

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Carex comans 'Bronze'

Sedge Grass - Bronze Hair Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. The thin foliage is arching, forming an attractive mound.

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Carex comans 'Frosted Curls'

Sedge Grass - Frosted Curls Hair Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Very attractive, compact, fine textured, weeping foliage,

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Carex dolichostachya 'Kaga Nishiki'

Sedge Grass - Gold Fountains Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Fine-textured, narrow, grass-like, bright green leaves which are edged with yellow.

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Carex elata 'Aurea'

Sedge Grass - Bowles Golden Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Very bright and upright gold arching foliage with a green edge.

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Carex flagellifera 'Bronzita'

Sedge Grass - Weeping Bronze Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Forms a soft, arching tussock of ruddy brown foliage and sends up discreet seed heads during summer.

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Carex morrowii 'Ice Ballet'

Sedge Grass - Ice Ballet Variegated Sedge Grass

Cool season evergreen perennial. Has an upright, arching habit.

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Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance'

Sedge Grass - Ice Dance Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass, A dense, spreading sedge grown for its foliage that has creamy-white margins and dark green centers.

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Carex muskingumensis 'Little Midge'

Sedge Grass - Dwarf Palm Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season grass. Thin, bright green, grassy leaves that branch at the tips resemble miniature palms.

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Carex oshimensis 'Evergold'

Sedge Grass - Evergold Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Dense, clump-forming sedge which is grown for its foliage effect.

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Carex siderosticha 'Variegata'

Sedge Grass - Variegated Broadleaved Sedge Grass

Clumping warm season evergreen grass. This selection forms a low mound of wide, grassy-looking green leaves

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Carex tenuiculmis 'Cappuccino'

Sedge Grass - Cappuccino Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Long and narrow, arching foliage emerges a rich red brown

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Carex testacea

Sedge Grass - Orange Sedge Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. It has slender vertical leaves, which are pendulous at their tips.

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Carex testacea 'Prairie Fire'

Sedge Grass - Prairie Fire Orange New Zealand Sedge

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. The foliage is olive green

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Chasmanthium latifolium

Sea Oats Grass - Northern Sea Oats Grass

Clumping cool season grass. This grass is perhaps most distinguished by the flat, drooping seed heads

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Chasmanthium latifolium 'River Mist'

Sea Oats Grass - Variegated River Mist Northern Sea Oats

Clumping cool season grass. It forms a medium-tall clump of narrow bamboo-like leaves

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Cortaderia selloana 'Pumila'

Pampas Grass - Dwarf Pampas Grass

Clumping warm season grass. Variety is a smaller, more cold hardy version of Pampas Grass.

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Cortaderia selloana 'Silver Comet'

Pampas Grass - Silver Comet Pampas Grass

Clumping warm season grass. A very showy, bright white-variegated form of pampas grass

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Deschampsia cespitosa 'Northern Lights'

Hair Grass - Variegated Tufted Hair Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Narrow blades are variegated with white, green, and coral hues.

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Elymus magellanicus

Blue Wheat Grass, Magellan Wheat Grass

Clumping cool season grass. A semi-evergreen ornamental grass with foliage colored silvery

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Festuca glauca 'Beyond Blue'

Fescue Grass - Beyond Blue Fescue

Clumping cool season Grass. Evergreen perennial grass that forms powder blue, thread-like

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Festuca glauca 'Boulder Blue'

Fescue Grass - Boulder Blue Fescue Grass

Clumping cool season grass. Fescue grass with metallic blue, spiky foliage that holds its color all season long.

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Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'

Fescue Grass - Elijah Blue Fescue Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Silvery-blue foliage forms a small, dense mound of spiky tufts of fine foliage.

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Festuca glauca 'Pepindale Blue'

Fescue Grass - Pepindale Blue Fescue Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. This is one of the more intense blue-leaved selections, retaining its color all season.

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Festuca idahoensis 'Siskiyou Blue'

Fescue Grass - Idaho Siskiyou Blue Fescue Grass

Clumping cool season grass. The thin leaves are much longer than the more familiar Festuca glauca,

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Hakonechloa macra 'All Gold'

Forest Grass - All Gold Japanese Forest Grass

Clumping warm season deciduous grass. Makes a dwarf mound of narrow golden-yellow

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Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'

Forest Grass - Golden Japanese Forest Grass

Clumping cool season grass. Narrow, arching leaves are striped with bright green and gold.

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Hakonechloa macra 'Nicolas'

Forest Grass - Nicolas Japanese Forest Grass

Clumping warm season deciduous grass. Green leaves become flushed with orange

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Helictotrichon sempervirens 'Sapphire'

Oat Grass - Sapphire Blue Oat Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Blue-grey leaves radiating out from the center of the plant.

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Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron'

Blood Grass - Red Baron Japanese Blood Grass

Clumping warm season grass. The upper half of each blade turns a garnet red in summer with the red color often

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Isolepis cernua

Fiber Optic Grass

Clumping cool season grass. Forms a wig-like mound of narrow green, hairlike foliage with an arching habit.

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Juncus effusus f. 'Spiralis'

Rush - Curly Corkscrew Rush

Clumping evergreen grass. Forms an irregular mound of curling twisted cylindrical leafless

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Juncus ensifolius 'Starhead'

Rush - Starhead Swordleaf Rush

Compact variety displays green, broad-leafed foliage and long-lasting, dark green star-shaped seed heads.

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Juncus junco 'Twisted Arrows'

Rush - Twisted Arrows Fuseables Grass

Twisted Arrows is two different species of Juncus that are co-mingled into one multi-seed pellet to deliver a dual effect

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Koeleria glauca

Hair Grass - Blue Hair Grass

Clumping cool season grass. Forms hedgehog-like, dense, circular mounds of thin, bluish green blades.

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Liriope spicata 'Silver Dragon'

Lily turf - Variegated Lily Turf

Clumping Semi-evergreen grass. Produces arching glossy variegated green and white leaves.

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Luzula campestris 'Ruby Stiletto'

Woodrush - Ruby Stiletto Woodrush

Clumping cool season grass. Forms a low mound of Semi-evergreen spiky and arching, red-tipped dark green leaves

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Luzula nivea

Woodrush Grass - Snowy Woodrush Grass

Clumping cool season evergreen grass. Slow-spreading that forms loose clumps of rough, deep green leaves.

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Luzula nivea 'Lucius'

Woodrush - Lucius Snowy Woodrush

Clumping cool season evergreen grass

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Luzula sylvatica 'Starmaker'

Woodrush - Starmaker Snowy Woodrush

Clumping cool season grass. A tufted evergreen grass with narrow deep green leaves

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Miscanthus 'Giganteus'

Silver Grass - Giant Silver Grass

Clumping warm season grass. Grows in erect clumps and has huge, pale, blue-green foliage.

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Miscanthus sinensis 'Flamingo'

Silver Grass - Flamingo Japanese Silver Grass

Clumping warm season grass. Narrow spidery green leaves with silver mid-rib

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