Happy 3rd anniversary of the Curated Reserve being online!
As always, we at the Curated Reserve are so grateful you choose to spend a little part of your day with us. We love that you want to learn and share with us as much as we want to with you.
For this anniversary, we thought we’d share a little artistic rendition of the resident Sedgehog service. Ever since its refurbishment, the trailcar system has been a thrumming vein threading even the most distant parts of the Reserve together.
The living namesake plants that cover the cars are all a part of the Cypeaceae family. Sedges are like grasses and rushes, except they don’t have any swollen joints (A.K.A. nodes).
There’s even a layperson rhyme: “Sedges have edges, Rushes are round, Grasses have nodes/knees from the top to the ground.”
Sedges also have three-ranked leaves, one for each side of the solid, triangular stem (A.K.A. culm). They prefer just about any habitat practically all over the planet--from the high mountain timberline to the low wetlands. They’re also a cool-season perennial. That means they grow in late winter-early spring before seeding in late spring.
Most cool-season sedges then spend the summer a warm dormant brown, but our Sedgehogs are a bit more enchanted than the average plant. Green grow our Sedgehogs, o! While our 4 trailcars may not dim entirely during the dormant season, they are definitely flowering showstoppers in the winter.
Maybe, in a couple seasons, you’ll get the see the beauty of sedges yourself.
HAPPY 3RD ANNIVERSARY!
