The Grasses Really Are Greener On The Other Side.
New Zealanders may beat the hell out of Aussies on the rugby field nine times out of 10, but a number of Australian plants currently residing here run rings around their local equivalents.
Our rivals across the Tasman certainly got the jump on us when it comes to grasses. I used to be a big fan of our native Carex comans, but they weren’t a big fan of me. Even those that survived being rolled on by the cat on a regular basis eventually lost their pretty green colour and turned pale and dead-looking, which they sometimes were.
While I was gently combing out their dead hair in an effort to revitalise them, the Aussies were sending us Lomandra, a drought-tolerant, evergreen and almost indestructible grass that comes in a wide variety of styles, sizes and colours. It looks good with virtually no care and it stifles weeds in a heartbeat.
It exhibits commendable behaviour in wind, sun, drought, partial shade, humidity and even the cold. It’s heavily used in civic plantings around our town – every couple of years, council workers wallop the tops off them with line-trimmers and they bounce back without even looking in danger of dropping the ball. Yes, they look appalling until their hair has grown back, but don’t we all?
この記事は New Zealand Woman's Weekly の January 21, 2019 版に掲載されています。
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7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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