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Carex pendula digging up
Hi i did have a plan to dig up carex pendula from a nicely established bed, and put them into a new very sparse bed.
Reading previous threads - is this a mammoth task? Ive got about 7 monsters and some baby monsters. I was going to take the big ones, but prefer not to kill myself, and if they are very hard to get out, i maybe will wreck them and wont be able to replant??
i could take the babies and leave the monsters as an alternative.
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they'll put up a fight but if you wreck them the bits will regrow.
Little plants grow quickly and grow to fit their space.
I don't think you'll kill them. Many have tried without success
In the sticks near Peterborough
I recently dug up a load of big carex pendula. To be honest I didn't have much trouble digging out but lifting them was a massive task. Most were disposed of but two I replanted appear to be doing fine after about a month! Best of luck. It really had taken over in one of my borders.
I've got my eye on a huge one, It's got to go. I quite like them, but not everywhere. I could cut them before they seed but there wouldn't be much point in keeping them if I could have the flowers and the seeds
In the sticks near Peterborough
I asked our son-in-law to dig ours out, it was far too heavy for me to lift once he had managed to dig out most of the plant and roots too. However I have been finding small plantlets all around the area.
I liked the plant too, the arching leaves and seed heads just suited the area near our small pond, great for the frogs to relax under the plant canopy. Is it a plant that you can keep in the pot? i.e. just bury the pot into the position in the garden that you want it to grow in?
Seeding is the invasive bit GD. It gets huge but it doesn't spread by runners.
In the sticks near Peterborough
In the sticks near Peterborough
At the place where you want to plant new Carex Pendula so it will be easier than digging out old ones
Last edited: 07 March 2017 08:15:45
a1154, you have read all the comments, and I think we can safely say we have been warned that this plant is not one to encourage in our gardens unless we want to be continually digging out the "babies", which incidentally aren't babies for very long - these plants grow huge in just a few short years. However, they do look nice when fully mature.
Haha. They are lovely when mature. I like all things tall and spiky. It would not work if we all liked the same things.
As for thuggery, there may come a time when all my garden is covered in plants and i think...hmm... i dont want all those things, id rather have something different. But im years away from that. So i need spreaders and self seeders.