Mat Rush Plant

Plant with other drought tolerant grasses and shrubs.

Mat rush plant.

Mat rush lomandra longifolia select form is a very tough hardy garden plant with green to greenish blue leaves that will form a large clump 1 to 1 3 metres tall and by the same wide. Lomandra filiformis whose common name is wattle mat rush is native to australia. One of our most popular native grasses lomandras are real workhorses that will find a place in any garden. Lomandra longifolia spiny head mat rush or basket grass is native australia wide except for the northern territory and western australia.

A tough easy care grass like plant for mass plantings dry borders and containers. In its natural environment this is an understory plant which explains its requirements. If you have tough difficult dry outdoor sites where you think nothing will grow try a lomandra. Lomandra mat rush.

Mat rush is an herbaceous evergreen perennial grass with a shapely form and gracefully arching stems. It grows in a variety of soil types and is frost heat and drought tolerant. How to propagate spiny headed mat rush seed. Great as a background or mass planting in the garden.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. Lomandra longifolia tanika mat rush a clumping grass like perennial with attractive narrow bluish green foliage and masses of perfumed yellow flowers in spring. Tufty upright native grass thigh high with a good bright leaf colour. Very attractive foliage lomandra confertifolia is another wonderful native clump forming grass commonly called mat rush however it does differ from other lomandra species in growing habit.

Wonderful weeping foliage to around 70 cm depending on variety. Our select form is ideal for a wide range of climates from the humid. Spiny headed mat rush companion plants. A member of the xanthorrhoeaceae family it can grow in a range of sandy soils in swamps and wet places to the montane zone on banks of creeks rocky hillsides cliffs and open forests.

Mat rush lomandra select form is a hardy versatile plant for dryland gardens. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect. The leaves are 40 cm to 80 cm long and generally have a leaf of about 8 mm to 12 mm wide. A wonderful versatile drought and salt spray tolerant alternative to liriope and low growing shrubs.

How to harvest spiny headed mat rush. Cut back every 3 10 years to 15cm above the ground to look more neat. According to the australian plant index this species belongs to the asparagaceae family but can also be found listed in the lomandraceae and xanthorrhoeaceae families.