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Red grass ID please

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
I found this in a container earlier this year looking the worse for wear so I  assume it's  a hardy one 
I've  given it a little TLC and it's  perked up. now I  need an ID so that I  can work out what to do with  it .

In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Looks like Uncina rubrum.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited August 2023
    Thank you @punkdoc. I'll Google it.
    That's it. full or partial sun moist but we'll drained soil. Does anyone ever achieve that?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    B3 said:
     full or partial sun moist but we'll drained soil. Does anyone ever achieve that?
    Yes   ;)

    I grow Uncinia rubra Everflame and it certainly doesn't like being too dry. It struggled in one of the sunny raised beds I had it in, so I moved it.  It can also die off a fair bit, or completely, in winters. I have the main plant beside the pond in not great soil conditions - clay but reasonable enough drainage, and it died off again in the middle after the winter, but I took the dead stuff out and it's recovered quite well. 
    It also self seeds readily though - in the gravel around it, but I also have one or two seedlings in the pond. I pot them up to grow in if I remember. 

    The seeds will snag your clothes every time you go past too. Not called the hook sedge without good reason  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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