Garden Pictures Pictures by spritzhenry (1647 photos)
Juncus effusus f. spiralis
The local Horticultural College has now opened its new plant centre. I found this wonderful grass to plant on the stream bank as it enjoys getting its feet wet!
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17 Jul, 2008
Great, isn't it! I shall call it the curly-wurly grass.
17 Jul, 2008
My hair looked a bit like the plant this morning Spritz before I had a haircut but thankfully it was not the same colour! . This is a great grass for sitting near the stream and very unusual.
18 Jul, 2008
Very interesting grass. Grenvilles hair sounds like a bad hair day.
18 Jul, 2008
if you need my straighteners grenville just let me know lol
22 Jul, 2008
I was so seduced by this a few years ago that I bought a plant even though we not only had no pond with a marginal planting area, but our soil was actually very well drained and sandy! If ever there was an impulse buy, this was one.Clearly you have the perfect environment for it - I ended up creating a reservoir beneath it to keep a constant source of water - and it worked - though how it has gone now with the new owners, I don't know. Since then I have promised myself that one day I shall have a pond and I shall have a good place to plant Juncus spiralis.
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This photo is of "Juncus effusus f.spiralis" in Spritzhenry's garden
Joined 31 Jan, 2008
Dublin
17 Jul, 2008
wow unusual looking