Horsetail Reed Grass
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It is an evergreen, perennial herbaceous, see how the Horsetail reed grass looks like in the garden and landscape.
Horsetail Reed Grass is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b. Other winter zone scales for planting this horsetail are ANBG: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; RHS: H7, H6, H5, H4, H3, H2, H1c; PHZ: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a.
Horsetail details
| Plant type | herbaceous, ornamental, containers | ||||||||
| Life cycle | perennial, evergreen | ||||||||
| Sun needs | part shade, full sun | ||||||||
| Growth habit | upright | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 90 sm - 2 m | ||||||||
| Spread | 90 sm | ||||||||
| Spacing | 90 sm - 1 m | ||||||||
| Soil type | loamy, sandy, clay, silty | ||||||||
| Soil moist/drainage | well drained moist, moderately drained, poorly drained | ||||||||
| Soil PH | 5.0 - 7.5 (strongly acidic - slightly alkaline) | ||||||||
| Water needs | average, low when established | ||||||||
| Maintenance / care | low | ||||||||
| Resistance to | deer, disease, drought, heat, insect | ||||||||
| Gardens types | container | ||||||||
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Horsetail grass
Equisetum hyemale, commonly called horsetail grass, scouring rush or rough horsetail, is a rush-like, rhizomatous, evergreen perennial ornamental grass that somewhat resembles a leafless bamboo.
It is native to large portions of Eurasia, Canada and the USA, where in the wild you might find is growing in the peripheries of wetland areas, lakes, rivers and ponds.
Horsetail can be grown in a wide range of gardening zones and on any type of soils from strongly acidic to slightly alkaline, and is also suitable as indoor houseplants for interior design.
There are several types of horsetails, some have mutts of leaves (eg. Equis?tum arv?nse on left image) , but horsetail reed grass almost without leaves.
Growing 4 to 5 feet tall, Horsetail Reed Grass is ideal for use as an accent in consistently moist garden beds and pots, planters and other containers. Containers can be submerged in the garden pond with the base of the plant just above the water line.
Perfect for filling those moist to wet spots, its rigid, hollow and jointed upright dark green stems provide unique texture and a vertical accent in the landscape or pots in the margin of the garden pond. The plant spreads from underground rhizomes and will form an attractive colony in consistently moist soils.
Horsetail Reed Grass @ wikipedia.
Horsetail Reed Grass in the landscape and gardening
