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Quartz Creek Soft Rush

Quartz Creek Soft Rush

JUNCUS effusus 'Quartz Creek'

  • Full Sun (6+ hrs) and Partial Sun / Shade (3-6 hrs)
  • Clumping and Tufted
  • Ships as a 4"plant
  • 18"-24"
  • 1'–2'
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Quartz Creek Soft Rush is a live 4-inch plant that grows into a dense fountain of fine, upright green stems: clean vertical line, no flower fuss, evergreen through the year. Juncus effusus reads as texture and structure rather than color.

Its real advantage is wet feet. Where most ornamental grasses sulk, this rush thrives — rain gardens, pond margins, the soggy end of a bed, a streamside planting, or a glazed container with no drainage hole. The tight vertical habit suits modern, pared-back planting, and a group of three or five says far more than one. Sun or partial shade both work, provided the root zone never dries out.

Fun fact: peel a soft rush stem and you find a continuous white pith. For centuries it was stripped out, soaked in fat and burned as a rushlight — a poor household's candle.

  • Sunlight: Full Sun (6+ hrs) or Partial Sun / Shade (3-6 hrs)
  • Water: Keep moist
  • Mature Size: 1'–2' tall × 18"-24" wide
  • Lifespan: Perennial
  • Hardiness Zones: 3–9

Yours will arrive healthy, or we will replace it free.

We use expedited shipping policies to protect plant health and minimize plant stress in transit.  All plants are in transit for only 1-3 days. (This does not guarantee 3-day delivery as orders are not always packed and sent out on the day of your order.) We send out deliveries on a weekly schedule to ensure quick transit times, so your order may not be packaged and shipped until later in the week. For instance, we may hold shipments to avoid weekend delays that keep plants in transit for longer.

All packaging includes eco-friendly material and our shipping methods are tested regularly to ensure plants arrive healthy upon arrival.

Additionally, any delays or damages in shipping are covered by our Healthy Plant Guarantee.

If you're plants arrived damaged, we will happily replace them for free!

Please contact us, send a picture, and detail any damage, so that we can continue to improve our shipping process and make sure you receive the healthy plants you paid for.

Hardiness Zones:

  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9

Mature Height is 1'–2'

Mature Spread is 18"-24"

Watering: Keep moist

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