Carex flaccosperma Reference 'Miss Ruby' won first place

'Miss Ruby' won first place in the Royal Horticultural Society's 2008 butterfly-bush trials and has been a favorite since

buttery cream-yellow flowers through autumn and into early winter

Massed along a path or set as a single specimen where low light needs breaking

From late spring into early summer

Carex flaccosperma Reference 'Miss Ruby' won first placeCarex flaccosperma, the blue wood sedge, is a clump forming native of the Southeastern woodlands grown for cool, glaucous, blue to blue green foliage. The blades are wide for a sedge, to half an inch, faintly quilted along the veins, and they catch the light with a soft powdery sheen that lifts a shaded planting where most greens recede. An easy, well mannered groundcover for shade, the blue wood sedge knits into low colonies along a shaded path,