Dividing Everillo Sedge - With Center Rot - October 2023
The original (to our garden) sedges - Everillo Sedges - have been in the ground since the Fall of 2020 . They're bright grasses in a dark, shade garden. But, I don't think that I've been using them in the right ways - as I've planted them in a colony together with very little matrix-planting around them/interplanted with them. They've been mostly neglected and suffered a bit from rabbits . Below is a look at the 'pre-dividing' planting of these sedges: A closer look at the one on the top of that photo shows that there's some 'center rot' going on and there are a number of smaller, independent sedges. This is just like what is going on with the Elijah Blue Fescue grass IB2DWs . Below is a look at the carex in question that I decided to divide: There's a small buckthorn seedling coming up in there that is (obviously) due for removal. But, It is easy to see a number of sedges here. I opted for dividing this clump into five. Three ...