Mt. Cuba Center Trial Garden Sam Hoadley Carex Sedges

Mt. Cuba: Sedges should be welcome addition to gardens

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

Mt. Cuba Center’s latest plant research report offers home gardeners some options for turf grass-like plants that can be moved and work well in full shade or full sun. A five-year study of Carex plants, also known as sedges, found that many of the 70 tested were remarkably resilient. “Some of the biggest surprises were just the adaptability of these …

Want hydrangeas that bees will love? Choose a lacecap, says Mt. Cuba

Betsy PriceCulture, Headlines

  If you want to choose a native hydrangea that will attract pollinators, all you have to do is follow the buzzing. When Mt. Cuba Garden Center was studying 29 species and cultivars of native hydrangeas, the row filled with lacecap hydrangeas — particularly Hydrangea arborescens ‘Haas’ Halo’ — looked (and sounded like) like an insect version of the Starboard …