扫走了

今天在花园里彻底的薹。北美原住民(加拿大南到佛罗里达州和西部到德克萨斯州)Carex Bromoides扫过我们的脚!这种令人愉悦的小常绿莎草形成了6英寸高的x 30“宽,精致的纹理斑纹的绿色毛发叶子。虽然它更喜欢湿润的湿土,但我们的堆肥精美令人震惊。Carex Bromoides是一些蝴蝶和船长毛毛虫的最喜欢的膳食食品,木鸭,松鸡和几个鸣禽,这反过来又消除了对肥料的任何需求。我们认为你真的非常喜欢Carex斑块,也可以是孤独的标本或质量。

应该,加拿来,莫娜买了一个莎草

回到2004年,我植物化了在路易斯安那州的乡村生物佛罗里亚教区,我遇到了这一迷人的窄叶原住民,这是一小块回到家试用。After six years of trialing, we named it Carex retroflexa ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (alluding to the location where the famous pair met their demise) and added it to our catalog offerings, where it sold a whopping 150 plants over a four year span, ending in 2013. The term “whopping” is used here as a point of sarcastical understatement. Not wanting to discard all of the unsold plants, we planted them around our new patio, where they were interspersed with Heuchera ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ and Penstemon ‘Blackbeard’. Here are a few images from that planting, taken this week. Maybe as the interest in carex increases, we can afford to offer this again.

Carex Retroflex'Bonnie和Clyde'
Carex Retroflexa'Bonnie和Clyde',Heuchera'烟雾和镜子',Penstemon'Blackbeard'(背景)