Try Shade-Loving, Evergreen Cymophyllus Sedge as a Hosta Replacement

Reader Contribution by Barry Glick and Sunshine Farm And Gardens
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Many years ago, when I was just getting my nursery off the ground, there was buzz about a very rare, very mystical, very difficult to grow sedge. A sedge like no other sedge, so different that sometime in the 1940s, it was removed from the genus Carex and given its own monotypic genus – Cymophyllus!

Somewhere along the line, I was fortunate enough to barter with a colleague for 10 one-quart plants. They were immediately bumped up into gallons and placed out in the woods and forgotten about. Yes, I forgot about these “difficult-to-grow”, really rare plants. I forgot about them, not just for a week or two, or a month or two, or even a growing season. I forgot about them for 10 years!

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