Dividing Japanese sedge
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11 years agoken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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carex [japanese sedge] spring pruning????
Comments (3)Cares should be pruned in the winter to cut back the DEAD growth. The NEW growth emerges in the spring. if you did not prune it in the winter, just give it a "hair cut" Grasses are alot like us...with split ends. If it looks bad just cut it out!...See Morecan I divide autumn fern? japanese painted fern?
Comments (1)The JPF is easily divided, since it spreads by rhizones, you can remove a section of the rhizome (with a frond or growth bud) using a sharp knife or shovel. The Autumn Fern is a little more difficult, since it has a woody crown. Slice off a portion, with a frond(s) and some healthy roots with a knife or shovel. Pot the divisions in a moisture retentive potting mix and keep moist, in total shade, until they appear to be growing normally. The big box stores near me stock both of these during the growing season and have seen small pots there for $3-4. There is an Autumn Fern cultivar 'Brilliance',now available, that retains the bronze color well into the late spring-early summer. Have seen those at the box stores, also. Rb...See Moredividing japanese maple tree???
Comments (9)This is going to take a photo to clarify the situation :-) First, woody plants/trees can't be divided in the same sense one would divide a perennial. Typically, there is only one growth point emerging from the root crown and a woody one at that - just not a divisable situation. Suckering shrubs are a bit different but still not divided like a perennial - you risk the entire plant unless you just remove a somewhat remote rooted sucker. Named forms of Japanese maples are nearly always grafted. And the graft should be fairly obvious at close examination. You might have growth emerging from the rootstock (below the graft), which would account for the difference in appearance. Still not a dividable plant :-) But I think it is far more likely that you have a seedling grown tree - or three of them - that arose out of a simultaneous germination of three different seeds. Seedling grown J. maples can be extremely variable in appearance. I doubt this was done intentionally but although not common, it could happen naturally. If you have three separate, distinct trees growing out of the same planting hole, it IS conceivable these could be separated and "divided" provided there is no occlusion or melding of the bark from one tree to its neighbor. But this is really all just speculation and I'd hesitate to recommend any action until you can post photos that accurately depict the sitation....See MoreHave: Several uncommon native woodland sedges
Comments (0)Among the harder to find woodland sedges, I have Carex communis, Carex hitchcockiana, Carex albursina, Carex hirtifolia, and Carex pedunculata. I also have a lot of other woodland sedges more often found in the trade (e.g. Carex blanda, Carex muskingumensis, Carex eburnea, Carex pensylvanica). I am a botanist that does site assessments for a living, and these are either propagated from SE WI seed or plants rescued from sites being develped (division and/or seed). I don't have a lot of time now to deal with exchanges, but if someone out there has Trillium nivale, Trillium cernuum, Trillium flexipes, Dichanthelium latifolium, or Asclepias amplexaulis (seed) that are sourced responsibly...divided from their own garden/property or of garden origen, or in the case of the milkweed, seed collected legally or with permission...I'd be very interested in a trade....See More
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