AusBonsai

Today, at ballarat bonsai exhibition, there was an accent plant, a type of grass, that was in tight corkscrew curls, quite small... does anybody know the name of this? If they went to the exhibition? and can remember the plant?

I cant remember the name, but look at plants plus. I know it.... its pretty common.....

I've never seen it before, but we don't have much in the way of nurseries here


a name would help....

Didn't go the the expo but it could be Juncus effisus spiralis 'Corkscrew rush' maybe...

I have that in the garden, this appeared to be a tighter curl, with smaller? shorter? foliage? was quite petite. the thought does occur to me that it could have been a juvenile form of the plant???

I have been advised by an accent plant fanatic that it is a CORKSCREW FERN, comes in one size and growth would depend on conditions.

I had it for a short while but discovered it was not happy in my backyard and then it developed all these seed pods and it went OUT. I am rabid about keeping rapidly expanding plants out of my garden and I did not want an invasion of corkscrews, cute tho they are.

MelaQuin wrote:I have been advised by an accent plant fanatic that it is a CORKSCREW FERN, comes in one size and growth would depend on conditions.

I had it for a short while but discovered it was not happy in my backyard and then it developed all these seed pods and it went OUT. I am rabid about keeping rapidly expanding plants out of my garden and I did not want an invasion of corkscrews, cute tho they are.

good reason for not keeping it... Pity, it looked pretty.