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Re: [SHADEGARDENS] Juncus effusus spiralis

We have installed a pseudo bog garden and would like some very dwarf plants
for this area. It is a series of 7 ponds that empty into each other. This
is watered from our kitchen sink which amounts to constantly. I've used
dwarf hosta, dwarf astilbe, some small iris and would like more variety.
Suggestions please.



At 01:45 AM 1/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
>This charming rush is hardy in Zone 4 here, surviving in both moist
>conditions at the edge of the pond and in slightly dryer soil higher
>up the sides. Pots that were left over at the nursery were simply put
>in the pond in the fall and overwintered magnificently (almost
>doubling in size over the winter- they must have been growing under
>the layer of ice over them)...
>
>At the Montreal Botanic Garden, it is growing (usually) at the sides
>of a shallow, moving stream. The story goes that each year some
>critter digs it out from its location in late fall to winter. Each
>Spring it is found floating and uprooted, always alive, and is
>replanted.
>
>Plants come true from seed and emerge with the spiralled foliage from
>day one. It is unbelievably cute at this stage. It is wonderful to run
>your hands through the twisted and curled foliage, almost like
>unknotting hair....
>
>We are just emerging from 2 weeks without heat, hydro and water. 4
>acres of trees are almost entirely destroyed. Some days this week were
>-38C with wind chill. Only a fireplace for heat. The damage is
>unbelievable. It was the only 2 weeks I can remember not thinking
>about plants at all.
>
>Kristl
>Gardens North Perennial Seed
>N. Gower, Ontario
>Zone 4
>
>
Butch Ragland So. Indiana zone 5

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