Professional Growing Information I loved this plant at first. It is evergreen in my climate (USDA zone 8b) and thrived in my soggy clay soil. Then it had ugly brown blooms. Rain made them into slimy brown blooms. Eww. I trimmed them off, which left brown tips on all the foliage. Since the foliage does not die back in my climate, those ugly brown tips persisted until I finally cut the whole plant down to the ground. It wasn't long before I decided that the plant was unattractive longer than it was attractive and required more maintenance and space than it was worth. So I dug it up and threw it in the yard waste bin. Little did I know that it's single season of bloom had been enough for it to self sow. There are hundreds of seedlings covering a huge area of my yard. It has become a weed.
Graceful Grasses® Blue Mohawk® Soft Rush Juncus inflexus
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The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).
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EVERYTHING goes with GREEN.Award WinnerFoliage InterestWater PlantGrass:GrassCharacteristics
Plant Type:AnnualHeight Category:TallGarden Height:24 - 36 InchesSpacing:8 - 12 InchesSpread:8 - 12 InchesFoliage Colors:BlueFoliage Shade:BlueHabit:UprightContainer Role:ThrillerPlant Needs
Light Requirement:Part Sun to SunMaintenance Category:EasyBloom Time:Grown for FoliageHardiness Zones:5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9bWater Category:AverageSoil Fertility Requirement:Average SoilUses:ContainerUses:GrassUses:LandscapeUses Notes:Great in landscapes and containers.
Maintenance Notes:Juncus is a warm-season grass. Warm-season grasses won't start growing until mid to late spring or even early summer. Their major growth and flowering happens when the weather is hot. They will usually turn shades of brown for the winter.
Cut back warm season grasses in fall or by mid to late spring. Warm season grasses turn shades of brown as the weather turns colder. Once your warm season grasses turn brown you can trim them back at almost any time. If you like to tidy your garden in fall or if you live in an area where fire can be problematic trim warm season grasses so they are just a few inches tall.
If you live in an area where fire generally isn't a problem you can leave the dried grasses and seed heads in your garden for winter interest. Snow or ice encrusted ornamental grasses can be quite beautiful.
If you leave the trimming until spring try to make sure to cut them back to the ground (you can leave a couple of inches) by late spring, before new growth begins.
Not all ornamental grasses look good through the winter, trim back those that don't look good in the fall.
Divide warm season grasses anytime spring through mid-summer. All ornamental grasses should be divided when they are actively growing but not while they are flowering. If the plants are dormant when they are transplanted they won't establish a good root system. Warm season grasses generally start growing in late spring or early summer and have their active growth period during the heat of the summer. Warm season grasses will tend to bloom in mid to late summer.
Despite a preference for abundant moisture, soft rush will perform surprisingly well in average garden soils as long as they receive consistent irrigation. Clumps are often slow to establish, but once established will spread by creeping rhizomes. Soft rush may be grown in tubs or containers sunk in the mud to control unwanted rhizome spread. Plants will also naturalize by self-seeding. In cold climates, clumps die to the ground in winter. Cut back old foliage in early spring
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3 Reviews
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Rebecca, Washington, United States, 4 weeks ago
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Planted in a container with red Pentax graffiti - beautiful !
Tom, United States, 7 years ago -
Adds a nice controlled height to a container, not so overpowering as the annual grasses...will try to put in the ground this year to ovverwinter.
Twila Yednock, Illinois, United States, 11 years ago
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Award Year Award Plant Trial 2018 Top Performer University of Minnesota - Morris 2011 Best Baskets University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids 2011 Top Performer Ohio State University Extension - Springfield 2011 Top Performer South Dakota State - McCrory Gardens 2011 Leaders of the Pack - summer North Carolina State, JC Raulston Arboretum 2011 Best Overall Performers University Laval 2011 Top Performer University of Georgia 2011 Excellent University Laval 2011 Best Baskets University of Minnesota - Grand Rapids 2011 Top Performer Ohio State University Extension - Springfield 12 More colors
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