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Summer planting
Contrary to popular opinion, summer planting is fine as long as adequate water is provided throughout any prolonged dry periods. This allows you to take advantage of increased summer growth.
Scirpus polystachyus
Height: 0.5m;  Spread: 0.5m
Sedge & Rush-like
In wetlands south of Hokitika to about Okarito. Its range is still expanding. Usually in sunny places with rhizomes immersed in water.
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