(Common Rush, Spiral Common Rush)

The crazy, curly foliage of corkscrew rush will add interest and fun to any water or bog garden. Hardy and tough, it is an evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial. It naturally inhabits calm, shallow waterways and ditches and tolerates both fresh and salt water. Its clump-forming habit makes it amenable to water gardens and containers.

Corkscrew rush forms clumps of wiry, round, corkscrew-like blades that curl themselves into a green tangle. The lustrous blades produces small tufted brown flowers...

(Blonde Ambition Rush, Common Rush)

The crazy, curly foliage of corkscrew rush will add interest and fun to any water or bog garden. Hardy and tough, it is an evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial. It naturally inhabits calm, shallow waterways and ditches and tolerates both fresh and salt water. Its clump-forming habit makes it amenable to water gardens and containers.

Corkscrew rush forms clumps of wiry, round, corkscrew-like blades that curl themselves into a green tangle. The lustrous blades produces small tufted brown flowers...

(Common Rush, Frenzy Spiral Common Rush, Spiral Common Rush)

The wild corkscrew rush, ‘Frenzy’, is distinguished by its variegated, upright, curly foliage. The fantastic foliage will add interest and fun to any water or bog garden.

Hardy and tough, corkscrew rush is an evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial. It naturally inhabits calm, shallow waterways and ditches and tolerates both fresh and salt water. Its clump-forming habit makes it amenable to water gardens and containers.

‘Frenzy’ forms clumps of wiry, round, corkscrew-like blades that curl...

(Common Rush, Spiral Common Rush, Unicorn Spiral Common Rush)

There is no mistaking this rush with its unique corkscrew rods that create a unique texture and habit. The plant divides itself between a wild wetland and a constrained modern container garden. Its parent species is native to a huge range spanning both North America and Europe. In habitat these plants live in the margins of waterways that rise and fall with the seasons. This makes them tolerant of growing in both dry ground as well as when fully inundated. This dark forest green, grass-like perennial...

(Common Liverwort, Marchantia)

A low-growing mat of green growing in a sunny location is usually a telltale sign of the common liverwort. It looks somewhat similar to the closely-related mosses and hornworts. The common liverwort is a primitive, non-vascular plant native to all parts of the world, from the tropics to the polar tundra, in a wide array of habitats from cliffs, heath lands, bogs and forests. Liverworts do not flower, but reproduce with spores or by developing more vegetative growth. They also have two physical forms...

(Chinese Juniper, Variegated Twisted Juniper)

Chinese juniper is a variable evergreen tree or shrub native to China and Japan. Its cultivar 'Torulosa Variegata' is a broad, upright shrub with an irregular, spiralling habit that lends it a picturesque, wind-swept appearance. Its cream-tipped, bright green, scale-like foliage and small, blue, berry-like fruit are also ornamental. 'Torulosa Variegata' prefers sun and well-drained soil. Its unique form makes it a poor choice for hedges, but an excellent one as a feature plant.

(Chinese Juniper, Twisted Juniper)

Chinese juniper is a variable evergreen tree or shrub native to China and Japan. Its cultivar 'Torulosa' -- popularly known as Hollywood juniper -- is a broad, upright shrub with an irregular, spiralling habit that lends it a picturesque, windswept appearance. Its bright green, scale-like foliage and small, blue, berry-like fruit are also ornamental. 'Torulosa' prefers sun and well-drained soil. Its unique form makes it a poor choice for hedges, but an excellent one as a feature plant.

(Shore Juniper)

Shore juniper is a low growing evergreen ground cover native to Japan and Sakhalin. Its prickly, sharply pointed, needle-like foliage is apple-green or bluish green, sometimes with a bronze cast in winter. Blue-black berry-like cones appear in fall. A coastal native, shore juniper prefers well-drained soils and full sun and is highly salt tolerant. It dislikes moist heavy soils.

(Blue Pacific Shore Juniper, Shore Juniper)

Shore juniper is a prostrate, carpeting evergreen native to Japan and Sakhalin. 'Blue Pacific' has deep blue-green, needle-like foliage that is broader and less prickly than is typical for the species. One of the most vigorous and hardy cultivars of shore juniper, it rapidly forms a handsome ground cover. Blue-black berry-like cones appear in fall. It prefers well-drained soils and full sun and is highly salt tolerant. It dislikes moist heavy soils.

(Emerald Sea Shore Juniper, Shore Juniper)

'Emerald Sea' is a prostrate juniper whose trailing stems are densely lined with prickly, sharply pointed, needle-like foliage of deep, emerald green. It is a cultivar of shore juniper (Juniperus conferta), which is native to sandy, coastal areas in Japan.

Requiring excellent drainage and full sun, shore junipers are highly salt tolerant, and are thus ideal for seaside gardens where salt spray is problematic. The low, spreading habit of ‘Emerald Sea’ makes it a fine groundcover or...