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Aug 22, 2026
Bob WebsterHOST
There's an absolutely beautiful kind of newcomer on the scene plant.
Bob WebsterHOST
As far as ornamental varieties, but this material called Carex, C-A-R-E-X, looks like a grass.
Bob WebsterHOST
There's a variegated form that we actually used and have been extremely pleased with.
Bob WebsterHOST
And they're what we call sedges rather than grasses.
Bob WebsterHOST
But Carex is one thing.
Bob WebsterHOST
True grasses, purple fountain grass is popular.
Bob WebsterHOST
It may die out in a cold winter.
Jennifer PainterNARRATOR
All the plants have a high northern range, and one, the dwarf Arctic birch, is never found at sea level in latitudes as far south as the Dogger Bank, except very rarely in the Baltic provinces of Germany.
Jennifer PainterNARRATOR
The plants already found are Ranunculus lingua, Castalia alba, Cochlearia species, Lychnis flos-cuculi, Arenaria trinervia, Spiraea ulmaria, Rubus fructicosus, Epilobium species, Galium species, Valeriana officinalis, Menyanthes trifoliata, Lycopus europaeus, Atriplex patula, Betula alba, Betula nana, Corylus avellana, Salix repens, Salix aurita, Sparganium simplex, Alisma plantago, Potamogeton natans, Rupia rostrata, Scorpus species, Carex species, Phragmitis communis.
Jennifer PainterNARRATOR
Among the nine species of beetle determined by Mr. G.C. Champion, it is noticeable that two belong to sandy places.
Jennifer PainterNARRATOR
This suggests that the fen may have had its seaward edge protected by a belt of sand dunes, just as the coast of Holland is at the present day.
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speaker_11NARRATOR
Story identified oak and roots of a conifer.
speaker_11NARRATOR
On washing a sample collected at a few yards distance, I found it to consist of a tough mass of vegetable matter, principally sallow and reed, both roots and stems.
speaker_11NARRATOR
It also contained seeds of Valeriana officinalis and Carex and a litter of beetles.
speaker_11NARRATOR
There was no evidence of salt water.
Paul FleischmanNARRATOR
Of Poa Pratensis, one.
Paul FleischmanNARRATOR
Of Carex panicia, four.
Paul FleischmanNARRATOR
Of Carex novianglia, one.
Paul FleischmanNARRATOR
The extremely fine and diffuse purple agrostis contrasted most divinely with the taller, strict, taper-finished cheluria.
Paul FleischmanNARRATOR
the long-awned single stipe too and p clandestinum with their broad ovate leaves and purple muffy pistils played an important part so also did the cylindrical spikes of the sedges all were just in place every leaf had its proper taper and texture and exact measure of green Only P. pretensis seemed out of place, and as might be expected, it proved to be an intruder, belonging to a field or bouquet in Europe.
Timothy Daniel FleischerHOST
Yeah
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
... um, whether that be Carex or, like, a native warm season grass, and you have, like, this big, pretty Amsonia that's just kind of popping up through the grasses.
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
Um, they work, so they work really well in the matrix styles plantings also.
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
And even some of them, you know, we're gonna talk about some of these cultivars, work really well at the front of the border, um-
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
Yeah.
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
Does Champsia or Tufted Hairgrass be a good one? What else did we have down here? So Carextricta or Tussock Sedge.
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
And that's one that really, really likes wet feet.
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
That's the one.
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
So Carextricta is the Carex that If you go to the Grass River Nature Preserve on the boardwalk all the way out at the end, all along the boardwalk
Timothy Daniel FleischerHOST
in
Matthew C. GuthrieHOST
that wetland,
Matthew C GuthrieHOST
Yeah.
Matthew C GuthrieHOST
Does Champsia or Tufted Hairgrass be a good one? What else did we have down here? So Carextricta or Tussock Sedge.
Matthew C GuthrieHOST
And that's one that really, really likes wet feet.
Matthew C GuthrieHOST
That's the one.
Matthew C GuthrieHOST
So Carextricta is the Carex that If you go to the Grass River Nature Preserve on the boardwalk all the way out at the end, all along the boardwalk
Timothy Daniel FleischerHOST
in
Matthew C GuthrieHOST
that wetland,
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