Blue Dart Rush
Juncus ‘Blue Dart’
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-9b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Ornamental Grass
Height at Maturity: 12-18″
Width at Maturity: 12-15″
Spacing: 12″ apart for mass plantings, 30″ apart for space between plants
Spacing: 12″ apart for mass plantings, 30″ apart for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Upright
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: Green
Flower Type: na
Flower Size: Small
Flowering Period: Summer into Fall
Flowering Period: Summer into Fall
Fragrant Flowers: na
Foliage Color: Blue
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: No
Sun Needs: Full Sun or Part Shade
Water Needs: Average to Low
Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt
Soil Drainage: Well Drained Moist, Moderately Drained, Poorly Drained, Standing Water
Soil pH: 5.0 – 6.5
Maintenance / Care: Very Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Heat, Insect
Description
Blue Dart Rush is an evergreen perennial grass prized for its thin blue leaves and the soothing color and fine texture it provides in garden beds or as vertical accent in container gardens. Smaller in stature than ‘Blue Arrows’, the stiff, thin leaves emerge lime green in color turning blue and remaining that color throughout the rest of the year, even during winter. Though this one is often grown as a bog or pond plant it is also fairly drought tolerant in garden beds. Juncus are tough, versatile, and evergreen in most climates, and Blue Dart won’t disappoint.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing in an upright clump 12 to 18 inches tall and 12 to 15 inches wide, Blue Dart Rush is ideal for use as an accent or in groupings or mass plantings in landscape borders, garden beds and home foundation plantings. Excellent for use as a vertical accent in pots, planters and other containers which can be placed on the patio or in the margins of the garden pond. A fine addition to ornamental grass gardens, bog gardens, rock gardens, and blue color theme gardens.
Growing Preferences
Blue Dart Rush is easy to grow in most any wet to dry soil of average fertility in full sun to part shade. Grows well in standing water so is suitable for use in the garden pond with the base of the plant at water level or higher. Maintenance is minimal. If necessary, the foliage can be refreshed annually, before new growth begins to emerge in spring, by cutting back the old stems. After doing so, bright, new greenery will emerge in spring. This duplicates what happens naturally in its northern most range, where the frost kills its greenery back to ground level.
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This is my first purchase of ornamental grass. I was looking for one that didn’t require a bunch of maintenance and cutting back. The plants arrived in great shape and very quickly. They are doing great in their new home!————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

















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