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Serendipitous supply
When the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust wanted to give a gift of plants, locally sourced from Rarangi Beach, east of Blenheim, they came to Oratia. Not only could we provide an eco-sourced species, it was also a plant which had since disappeared from the region!

This is the Trust's story.

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Carex flagellifera
Height: 0.75m;  Spread: 0.75m
Sedge & Rush-like
Tussock grass with fine green foliage. Grows in sun and shade. Flowering stems lengthen when seeds ripen.
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On 05/09/2021, Dwayne said:
i grew a whole tray ful of carex flag on a clay bank in the driest part of auckland region, amongst overgrown ryegrass etc and they thriveď. After the fist year you can finally start to see some of them getting big enough to notice among the surrounding grass. A perfect grass to interplant between native shrubs and trees to reduce weeds.
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