Carex ‘Frosty Fountain’

Common Name:
Frosty Fountain Sedge

Description:
Carex ‘Frosty Fountain’ is a beautifully refined ornamental grass-like plant known for its soft, cascading foliage and silvery-white variegation. This clumping sedge forms graceful, fountain-shaped mounds with narrow, arching leaves striped with icy white and green, offering year-round texture and colour to garden beds, borders, and containers. It performs reliably in Melbourne gardens, thriving in part shade to full sun with moist, well-drained soil, though it also tolerates dry periods once established. Carex ‘Frosty Fountain’ is particularly effective when planted en masse or used to soften edges in modern, coastal, or Japanese-inspired landscapes. Its compact and tidy growth makes it an excellent groundcover or understory plant, and its foliage remains attractive through all seasons. This variety is low maintenance, non-invasive, and pairs beautifully with flowering perennials or structural plants.

Form:
Shrub - Clumping / Grass-like / Mounding
Ground Cover

Mature Size:
Height: 30 to 40 cm
Width: 40 to 50 cm

Aspect:
Full Sun
Part Shade
Full Shade

Flowering:
Flowers in Spring
Flowers in Summer

Flower Colour:
Insignificant / Brown

Key Attributes:
Suitable for Pots
Perennial
Drought Tolerant
Low Maintenance
Evergreen
Suitable for Coastal Gardens
Foliage Interest
Non-invasive

Toxicity:
Not known to be toxic to humans or animals

Companion Plants:
Heuchera ‘Lime Marmalade’
Salvia nemorosa
Liriope muscari
Ophiopogon japonicus
Helleborus orientalis

Plant Growers Australia (PGA) is an innovative wholesale production nursery based in Melbourne, renowned for superior quality garden plants and pioneering breeding programs.
PGA do not sell direct to the public, but their website has detailed information on this species that is available for everyone to access. 
Visit www.pga.com.au for further details and photos of this plant.