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More of my plants need identifying, please.

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  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444

    hi

    i am a lurker but those grasses look like sedge cared pendula.

    looks nice but self seeds and can be a nightmare to keep control of all its little babies it sends out.

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  • image  Am chuckling at that comment. Thank you : )

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Carex pendula, I think you're right Sussexsun. Don't lurk, come out and play image

    Has it got a ridge down the back of the leaf giving it a triangular shape Metalmama?



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  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444

    If you want to keep it and don't want to spend your gardening time pulling up its little babies from all over your garden and edges of your paving remove the seed heads as soon as they form. JUst cut them off the stems that the sedge throws out and bin them. The seeds are so small and light the wind carries them everywhere otherwise.. The sedge will form a large clump but doesn't spend otherwise.

    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444

    Thank you nutcutlet I might just do thatimage

    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • Nutcutlet - yes it does have a ridge at the back in a triangular shape.

    It appears to be just roots.

  • I've never had an issue with the seeds but have a gravel garden so maybe that's why?

  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556

    I think the grassy plants in last two pics are Liriope.  I have it all over my yard, the small ones, the giant variety, and the variegated ones as well.  They love to be in the ground and will even give you some not-too-noticeable purple bloom spikes imagewith a feed once or twice a season.  Here's one of the giant ones in the ground at the entrance to my Big Garden:  

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  • Oooh thanks!

    What a lovely garden you have there! What's the purple flowering plant you have in the large pot?

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Metalmama, the evergreen in the 4th picture could be Prunus lusitanica, Portuguese laurel.  And I think I'd go with Sussexsun & Nutcutlet's ID of carex (sedge) for the grassy plant.  Unfortunately the leaf doesn't look flat enough to be Liriope, in my opinion... could be wrong though...

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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