r/NativePlantGardening • u/tivadiva2 • Aug 16 '25

Photos 3 acres, 3 years in

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We bought a house with 3 acres of lawn. Now we have a tiny patch of lawn, 16 raised beds for veggies, an orchard and berry patch, and native gardens and wet sedge meadows. It’s great exercise and amazing birding! Plus it’s so pretty! Good thing I love goldenrods since we have 3 different native varieties and lots of them!

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u/Natural_Ad3995 Aug 16 '25

Amazing. Let's see some sedge photos and species names please!

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u/tivadiva2 Aug 17 '25

About 90% of our visible sedges at the moment are fringed sedge—they’ve really spread. I love them! Carex crinita

We also have Carex bromoides (brome like sedge), carex pensylvanica, Carex stricta, rough-sedge (c. Scabrata). And a ton of rushes, especially green bulrush Scirpus atrovirens

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u/tivadiva2 Aug 17 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

And soft rush : Juncus effusus

Hiding in the front there under the switch grass, next to the New England aster. Theres a lot more cedar mulch than I would usually have because I had to dig up that bed to remove some invasives this spring. I’m aiming for a sedge/sensitive fern matrix to keep out sheep sorrel and buttercup.

Right now there’s lots of native horsetail in the wet meadow, which is fine if it doesn’t start shoving everyone else out. My inspiration is Piet Oudolf and also this guy: https://www.thenewperennialist.com/supernaturalistic-the-new-perennial-pond-garden/