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Is this a type of grass?
Hi guys, Found a lot of this plant today hiding in a corner so I decided to dig it up and take it home Can anyone tell me what it is? It looks a bit sorry for itself as lots of the leaves you can see are brown and the healthier leaves are snapped and bent and it looks a mess. Can I cut it back at all and will it grow back? Thanks
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Carex pendula, technically a sedge, not a grass. wild flower of weed,, you choose.
Seeds like a demon so beware
And hard to dig out when it reaches full size
I saw one of those for sale this morning outside an aquatics shop. £4.99
In the sticks near Peterborough
caveat emptor
Suitable for my garden, not CraighB's
I have one about 2ft across at the base, much more at the top
In the sticks near Peterborough
there was one at the front of this house when we moved in. Years of seeding means I'm inundated with them every spring.
Dozens, no that's not true, hundreds of seedlings waiting for me to remove right now.
But it's dark
In the sticks near Peterborough
Don't want it taking over! I did think to myself my mum wouldn't have bothered to plant it herself and there were a few other looking a mess by her next door neighbours fence, so I suspected it had come from the seeds of that.
Don't do it CraighB. There are loads of other plants with that shape that are well behaved
In the sticks near Peterborough
One of my red hot pokers is looking a bit like that.