Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Wednesday Vignette, Equisetum hyemale don't need no stinkin soil

You'd be forgiven if you thought my camera was pointed at the exuberant green roof, at Portland Nursery, but it wasn't.

Instead it was this Equisetum hyemale (horsetail) in a saucer, that I was focused on.

So happy, and so little soil...

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15 comments:

  1. I've never grown this, so I wouldn't know anything about conditions it likes. I was warned against it early on when we moved here. I should try it in a pot, because when contained it is a beautiful plant. This is different from the one that grows at the side of the road everywhere, that turns into large brushes?

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    1. I used to have a stock-tank full until I decided that space would be better suited to ferns. It's a fabulous (but invasive) plant. And yes the one that looks like a large brush is different, Equisetum telmateia.

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  2. Love the roof but warned early on not to put horsetail in our pond. So I just admire it from afar.

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  3. That plant clearly wants to live!

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  4. That's pretty amazing but I suspect it wants a good deal of water even if it can do without much soil.

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  5. That and the cockroaches will be around long after our species is gone.

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  6. That's definitely a survivor! Ours always looked messy and eventually it had to go.

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  7. Even in a pot it can be dangerous. I think you don't want any holes for it to creep out the bottom. It's very sculptural and lures people in but it can be a fatal mistake.

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    1. "It's very sculptural and lures people in but it can be a fatal mistake"...sounds like a carnivorous plant!

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  8. Haha - what Hoov said made me nod. She is absolutely right! That plant is a sculptural marvel. I have one in a watertight pot, but quite frankly, it scares me a little. Someone told me they also spread by spores.... yowsza - woe me if that is true!
    ~ Anna K

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    1. I had a stock-tank full in my garden for years, I never had any problems.

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  9. Oh yes, I see. Interesting. What the other folks said. I appreciate the Horsetail, but I'll never plant it.

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