Lomandra Mat Rush

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Lomandra mat rush.

Breeze dwarf mat rush. It spread 60 cm to 1 m wide. Lomandra is a native australian grass that is also called basket grass or spiny head mat rush. Lomandra longifolia commonly known as spiny head mat rush spiky headed mat rush or basket grass is a perennial rhizomatous herb found throughout eastern australia the leaves are 40 cm to 80 cm long and generally have a leaf of about 8 mm to 12 mm wide.

Choosing plants that grow and thrive in your particular climate is the very first step toward having a beautiful garden. A tough easy care grass like plant for mass plantings dry borders and containers. Produces small yellow fragrant flowers in spring. Pallida pom pom ppaf pom pom mat rush a compact mound forming grass like plant 18 to 24 inches tall by 2 3 feet wide with semi erect vivid lime colored foliage and small male cream to yellow flowers held nearly hidden among the foliage.

Lomandra growing conditions vary from sandy to moist soils in swamps mountains creek banks forests and open hillsides. A tough easy care choice for containers mass plantings and dry borders. Lomandra longifolia lm300 plant patent 15 420. A tussock or rush like plant.

They can be 1 m long by 1 cm wide. The plants are more widely known with common names of spiny head mat rush and basket grass. They are tough but flexible. It keeps growing from year to year.

Labillardiere described lomandra longifolia from a specimen. It grows in a variety of soil types and is frost heat and drought tolerant. Lomandra longifolia breeze pp15 420 lm300 dwarf mat rush an evergreen perennial with narrow deep green strap shaped leaves that are curiously cut as though with pinking shears at the tips. A wonderful versatile drought and salt spray tolerant alternative to liriope and low growing shrubs.

The leaves are long and narrow. The root system is crowded into a clump. Evergreen above 10 degrees fahrenheit. Lomandra grass has a clumping habit with green flat blades and a height and spread of about three feet.

It grows 1 m high. Breeze dwarf mat rush lomandra longifolia lm300 plant patent 15 420. Versatile evergreen selected for compact habit and fine textured grey green foliage. Rubigino seascape plant patent 20 010.

There are very few rules in gardening but perhaps the most important one is to work within your zone.