horsetail or mare's tail?

I've no idea it's only at the very early stages of "that would look nice":D

 

I have quite a bit of horsetail in my garden. No point in getting antsy about it as my neighbours' gardens are rife with it!

 

I had never seen it before this year....I'm still loving it

 

My mum's front garden used to have loads of the stuff; but it picked on the wrong person in my mum; she has the 'patience of a saint' and was out there on her hands and knees every day if needed constantly pulling it up. For a while it grew back trying to win the war but in the end my mum won - bless her :D and its not returned for a good few years, to coin a phrase - "resistance is futile" was the battle cry from my mum :D :thumb:

 

Was her other name Seven?

 

When we made our big raised beds a few years ago we bought in a lorry load of topsoil, which is great soil, free of stones and apparently weeds. However, there must have been hundreds of small pieces of horsetail root, and every one sprouted. Constant vigilance, pulling up and hoeing is paying off, though. Like others, I always make sure the bits go into the garden waste bin and not my compost bins.

 

Lol send then my way, we love it for now that is, confined to a pot!!

 

Haha that's exactly what I was thinking!...ones man's treasure.....

 

Well I took Aesculus's idea and had a little experiment with some pots I've already got. the pots are kinda clumped together as it's on a hill and squeezed inside border.

There's three types of fern, two i can't remember (one is a miniature type)but one is autumn fern. Also carex prairie fire, carex golden...something, some kind of stipa grass, horsetail grass, heuchera electra and crassula.

Happy with the results anyway, we'll see how it fills out as most of these are newly planted except the horsetail. Also added the cockle shells to the top of the pots, got a massive bag relatively cheap at the garden centre (I think about £3). Pots are a bit of a miss mash but I've kinda jumbled them together and pulled them from other areas.



















Japanese horsetail grass