Mat Rush Trimming

Trim spent flower stems and feed with low phosphorous native fertiliser early spring or late summer.

Mat rush trimming.

A tough easy care grass like plant for mass plantings dry borders and containers. Unlike many grasses breeze mat rush doesn t need to be cut back annually and some growers have stated that pruning is required only every. Evergreen above 10 degrees fahrenheit. 75cm high x 50cm wide.

Lomandra seascape can grow to a height of 75cm width of 50cm. A pair of sharp scissors. Rush place mats in checkweave and twining. Lomandra longifolia breeze tanika dwarf mat rush is an evergreen perennial grass like plant with a fine foliage.

A smooth surface to work on. Breeze dwarf mat rush lomandra longifolia lm300 plant patent 15 420. Once established is very low maintenance. Rainfall will usually look after watering however do water during very hot or.

A lacing tool for threading the ends away a locker hook works well. Can be planted in full sun or moderate shade and prefers moist well drained soils. Spiny head mat rush basket grass. Matt rush is a common name for lomandra a genus with about 50 species of tufted dioecious perennial herbs with long narrow blade like leaves that arise from a central stemless base acaulescent and have thick woody rhizomes and fibrous roots.

Remove spent flower stems in late spring. It is about 24 42 tall and wide. Growinglomandra there are many ways to grow. Lomandra gary s green in the san marcos growers garden the matt rushes at san marcos growers.

Individual stems inside a clump of evergreen rush die each year while the main clump remains green and healthy. A wonderful versatile drought and salt spray tolerant alternative to liriope and low growing shrubs. A member of the xanthorrhoeaceae family it can grow in a range of sandy soils in swamps and wet places to the montane zone on banks of creeks rocky hillsides cliffs and open forests. Lomandra longifolia spiny head mat rush or basket grass is native australia wide except for the northern territory and western australia.

In late summer remove the dead material to improve the clump s.