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Carex Red Rooster grass
Carex Red Rooster grass
A copper-bronze ornamental sedge that keeps its warm colour all year.
- Easy care
- Semi-shade to full sun
- Keep moist, not soggy
- 3L grow bag
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Carex Red Rooster grass
R 40.00
About this plant
About this plant
Red Rooster
Also known as Carex buchananii
Watering requirements: Keep soil moist not soggy. Does not like to dry out.
Sunlight requirements: Semi shade to full sun.
Note: Each individual plant is unique. This image is an example only, however the plant you receive will be as close as possible to this image description.
Note: It can not be confirmed that this plant will be in bloom when you receive it.
Note: Stem length indicated above is a guide to the estimated length rather than an exact length that you will receive.
Delivery and packaging
Delivery and packaging
We deliver nationwide with The Courier Guy: Pudo locker R89 or to your door R145. Gauteng customers can also collect in Boksburg (R25).
Orders ship from our depot within 7 working days, and most are on their way sooner. A few rarer plants are ordered in specially for you, which is why we allow 7 days. Couriers don't deliver on weekends.
Every order is packed by hand to survive the courier.
Healthy arrival guarantee
Healthy arrival guarantee
If your plant arrives dead or damaged, we replace it. Just let us know within 24 hours of receiving it and send us a few photos.
For everything else, see our refund policy.
Meet the plant
Copper-red grass for year-round colour
Carex buchananii · also known as Red rooster grass, leatherleaf sedge
Native to New Zealand
An evergreen ornamental sedge with fine, upright, copper-red leaves that curl at the tips. Its colour is natural, not a sign of drying out.
- Upright, copper-red grassy leaves in a 3L grow bag, an established clump.
- Adds warm colour and texture to beds, borders and pots all year.
- Takes semi-shade to full sun.
Where it thrives
The best spot in your home
Semi-shade to full sun, in soil that stays moist. Frost hardy, so it suits Highveld gardens.
Care card
- Light
- Semi-shade to full sun
- Water
- Keep moist
- Humidity
- Any
- Temperature
- -10 to 35°C, frost hardy
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Feeding
- Spring
- Growth
- Moderate, clumping
- Outdoors
- Yes, frost hardy
Care made simple
Your first weeks together
- Plant it in sun or semi-shade.
- Keep the soil moist, especially while it settles; it doesn't like to dry out.
- Comb out old dead leaves by hand in late winter.
Plant doctor
If you see this, do this
- Clump looks untidyComb out old leaves with your fingers in late winter.
- Leaf tips dry and brittleIt dried out. Water more regularly.
- Rot at the baseSoil too soggy. Improve drainage.
Questions
Good to know
What size will I receive?
What size will I receive?
An established clump in a 3L grow bag. Every plant is unique; the photo shows the size to expect.
Is the brown colour normal?
Is the brown colour normal?
Yes. The copper-red colour is natural.
Is it frost hardy?
Is it frost hardy?
Yes, it handles Highveld winters.
Packed to arrive alive
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