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Ornamental grasses at ChelseaUndemanding and very rewarding to grow, we've selected a range of the best grasses, sedges and rushes on show at the Chelsea Flower Show 2008.If you're looking for a grass that performs well in dry shade, try Amenanthele

the best chance of encouraging them out onto the wing.We used to get both commonly in our pond and the handful flying around the emergent sedges were just the most recent, judging from the several dozens of empty nymphal skins (exuviae) still attached

rattle when they fly.We let it go in the sedges of our pond and it clung on in the wind. An hour later it was gone, so I assume it reached take-off capability and was away.We have various damselflies and the broad-bodied chaser, Libellua depressa

There are fewer gardening jobs to keep you busy in January, so make the most of extra time and plant up a stylish container to decorate a terrace or doorstep. This elegant cube-shaped container is filled with the curly sedge, Carex buchananii

, or had been sheltering in the dense tuft of dry sedge in the pond corner, I know not. But she was alive and kicking and when I laid her on the pond-side she gently groomed her antennae with the delicate notches in her front legs. Just for a few moments

.  I usually give them a top dressing of sedge peat (which is not endangered) and also give them a drench with liquid seaweed feed. They grow well and give me a good crop, especially the ones in the pots.  I don't know whether regional conditions affect

container display of marginal plants Rachel de Thame's video project on planting up alpines in a potFern and birch containerCreate a bamboo and sedge display

is partially shaded so can anyone recommend and sedges or rushes I could plant? Grasses are looking great right now and I've just planted a few more which I got at the Harrogate show last month.Our garden is very heavy clay with very poor drainage and where

, and cut back in winter.Schoenoplectus lacustris subsp. tabernaemontani 'Zebrinus''Aurea' is a vigorous, long-lasting sedge, with vivid yellow-green foliage. Allow to reach its required size and divide when necessary. If kept in a small pond

just a root. I think we have a bulb here.  It looks incredibly like my Bluebells, they are about that size with the spine/crease down the leaf Looks like a sedge to me and they do spread. Or Iris unguilaris which takes years to re-establish after being