Hello! My fiance bought her home about a year and a half ago, and I've been doing most of the yard work here to make it a nice place. We hated the front yard, which was filled with grass, overgrown bushes, and thanks to the uneven and hilly terrain (it's not even very big), it's a massive pain to mow. So I ripped everything out, killed the grass, and put mulch down over all of it.
Then I discovered this subreddit after I already was looking into planting way more native plants. I want to plant sedge across the entire front lawn. I have a few problems I really need help to try and fix, or find a proper direction:
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I used a bit of plant killer to kill the grass, which only turned it brown. I put down landscaping fabric over the grass, which is about half of the front yard. I know I'll need to cut through this.
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We've tried planting various bushes/flowers in the formerly grassy area, and the plants die out over a few weeks. I'm thinking my dumbass used all this plant killer and now things won't grow. Is this the case? Is it fixable? Will a wet winter help fix it?
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All of our soil is crazy rocky. I've had to stop in the middle of digging holes for trees and dig elsewhere because of big, solid rocks. Plenty of small rocks in every layer.
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Are plugs my only option? I've seen some sites selling bulbs and roots for low prices in bulk. How about seeds? I've got a great idea for a place in my backyard, but my idea would require seeds to do it like I want to.
I'm in Pennsylvania so we're talking about Pensylvanica sedge on particular. My ADHD makes absorbing the written info I need a very difficult process if I can even find it online (outside of Reddit comments), and YouTube has been a big help with lots of home things I've needed to learn, but I can't find anything remotely on the topics I need for this.
We planted a few native flowers last year and I was astonished at how much insect life just those few plants drew. So now I want to really lean into naturalizing as much of my yard as I can. But I seriously need some guidance since I never learned any of it before moving into my first non-childhood house in 40 years.
For a new garden edge, looking for plants that can tolerate these conditions, aren't too aggressive, and aren't overly tall.
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I collected this species years ago, kept in in an aquarium, and lost it in a move. But I've never been able to figure out what it was.
Unfortunately I don't have a picture, but hopefully a description will be good enough.
This was a fully aquatic (not emergent) small plant with leaves maybe 4-5 cm long on average. The leaves/stems had an obviously triangular cross section and were narrow (3mm?) and pointed. They were fairly stiff, not floppy. They grew in clusters from a rooted base, but also would start new plantlets from the end of the leaves, a bit as if they were starting from runners. Maybe they were runners and just looked very much like the leaves...they were also triangular in cross section and green. It would grow straight out of the substrate, but I also found it drifting. I never saw any flowers, so no help there.
Is there a local company that sells sedges in bulk? I want to cover a couple hundred SQF and itβs cost prohibitive to pay $9 per plant as theyβre sold at nurseries.
Iβve tried germinating a couple carex species with no luck. I did 60 day cold moist stratification, heat mat, humidity dome. Not sure what else I couldβve done. Itβs weird because grasses are usually easy. Does anyone have experience growing them?
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For more information on how to apply to us please visit: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/education 2022_80_Kew_Larridon: Untangling the diversity and evolution of hairsedges (Bulbostylis, Cyperaceae) in Africa Supervisors: Dr Isabel Larridon (mailto:i.larridon@kew.org); Prof. Vincent Savolainen (Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences) Department: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Cyperaceae (sedges) are a plant family of considerable economic and ecological importance. Sedges represent an ideal model to study evolutionary biology due to their species richness, global distribution, large discrepancies in lineage diversity, broad range of ecological preferences, and adaptations including multiple origins of C4 photosynthesis and holocentric chromosomes. Hairsedges (genus Bulbostylis) can be recognised by tufts of long white hairs at the mouth of the leaf sheaths. Globally, the genus includes 227 species of which c. 127 are native to Africa. Limited DNA data is available for the genus. This lack of data means evolutionary relationships are unclear and hampers studying trait evolution in and biogeographical history of Bulbostylis. Additionally, without a detailed DNA-based study, delimitation of species is uncertain. Using an integrative taxonomic approach combining multiple data sources including phylogenomics, (micro)morphology, ecology and biogeography, the aim of this study is to gain a clear understanding of the diversity, evolution and conservation of Bulbostylis in Africa. Additionally, using new opportunities in machine learning, we aim to test new tools for automated species identification. The PhD chapters will focus on: 1) Phylogenomics: Sequence c. 200 Bulbostylis samples using high-throughput targeted sequencing with the Angiosperms353 probes, and use maximum likelihood and coalescent approaches to obtain a highly resolved dated phylogeny. 2) Traits: Capture trait data by coding information from existing datasets as well as carrying out additional morphological investigations including SEM imaging. In combination with the phylogenomic data, these dat
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Help please! Anybody have access to seeds of Carex texensis?
