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The plant known as Carex pendula It is one of the most recommended to grow in gardens that are in areas where it rains regularly. Its growth is very fast, but without being invasive, although if you do not trust too much you can also have it in a pot or, better, in a bucket or large pond 🙂.
So if you want to know more about this species, then I'm going to tell you everything you need to know about her.
Origin and characteristics
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El Carex pendula, popularly known as carex, pendulum carex, bulrush, junca or weeping carice, is a herbaceous plant native to Europe and the Mediterranean basin. It produces dark green tapered leaves that can measure between 1,5 and 1,8 meters in height.. The flowers are grouped in hanging spikes that appear in spring and remain until fall.
Its cultivation in gardens is highly recommended; in fact, planted around the lawn for example, it is very decorative 🙂.
What are their cares?
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Do you want to have a specimen of cattail? Provide this care, and enjoy:
- Location: it must be outside, in full sun.
- Earth:
- Garden: it grows in all types of soils, although it prefers those that are always humid. It has no problem with flooding.
- Pot: universal growing substrate.
- Irrigation: very frequent. If it is in a pot, you can put a plate under it and fill it, or plant it in one without holes.
- Subscriber: in spring and summer, with fertilizers such as guano for example, following the directions specified on the package.
- Multiplication: in spring, by division of the bush.
- Plagues and diseases: it is very resistant, it does not usually have.
- Pruning: at the end of winter it is advisable to give it a drastic pruning to make it more compact.
- Rusticity: resistant up to -5ºC.
What did you think of the Carex pendula? Did you like it?