3/25/2023 0 Comments Adventure outdoors![]() ![]() This reputable site,, helped me appreciate and recognize Carex blanda’s rightful place in the soil in my yard. More than just a versatile grass that can take a lot of mistreatment, it deserves its own plant labels like any of the other native flowers and shrubs we have planted. The tufts of Carex blanda that I once disregarded I now highly esteem and see as extremely worthy of showcase landscape positions in our garden. By setting aside a historical ideal garden type, and by noticing the plants in contemporary native gardens used in model parks in our region, I now choose plants appropriate to where we live, a previously forested woodland area in southern Indiana. Today I am more careful to include native plants that have evolved in our geographical region, soil, water and sun conditions. I used to imitate what I saw in other gardens, like my folly in planting invasive English ivy in an attempt to give our modest 1960s tri-level home a stately entrance resembling an English castle. Native grasses and sedges are some of the plants like this that have entered my awareness, and one in particular Carex blanda (common woodland sedge), with its bright green blades and pleasant tufting habit. It has taken me time, but I am finally beginning to see these seemingly humble, but hearty plants as treasures that are telling me by their success where I should plant them. Even though I didn’t plant them and failed to notice to them, even though they were mown over, baked in the sun and ignored, they grew well year after year. But some native plants in my garden have been offering me clues all along. This hesitation in gardening is understandable considering my still less-than-complete native plant knowledge. I love the smell of soil, and I can play in compost and dirt all day long, but when it comes to moving plants around and actually committing to where a plant will spend the term of its natural life, I get a little anxious. ![]() Gardening isn’t always my strongest area of success, but strangely enough, it is one of the things I enjoy digging into the most. ![]()
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