Specialty Gardening: What would you do here?, 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
rcn,
How could I resist the Carex eburnea when I hear your husband referred to it as "Fairy Grass" as a boy. I have to admit to a probably foolish addition to that strip, a weed, Plantain lanceolata, because I think the "flowers" look like "Fairy Candles". I have plenty of the broadleaf Plaintain major as a weed in my garden but always admired the other narrow leaved variety for the unusual flower, so I dug 2 clumps out of the sidewalk strip in front of someone's house. I'm sure they didn't miss it. In my admittedly weak defense, on the herb forum I found it can be used to make a salve.
I have a very fine leaved "grass" identified as a Juncus, probably tenuis, by Patrick on the Plant ID forum. It is growing spontaneously in the path with moss so I've been using that as a filler. I think the Carex will work well with it.

The stone dust in your photo goes well with the stone steps and path. I think the light stones I have work better in this bluestone path in the photo then the driveway. I'll have to move the rest of them to this path in the spring.

This message was edited Oct 29, 2007 1:54 PM