This month, hundreds of millions of birds are migrating south, filling the sky with "sedges" of herons, "gaggles" of geese, and "exaltations" of larks. The story of how a medieval woman gave bird species their strange and imaginative group names
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith
Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…
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October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Check out the Marsh Arabs’ mudhif. Reed constructions have been around for millennia and are very sturdy (and beautiful).
People living in and around wetlands have been using reeds/sedges etc for multiple things - flooring, roofing, kindling, etc. def an underrated resource
People living in and around wetlands have been using reeds/sedges etc for multiple things - flooring, roofing, kindling, etc. def an underrated resource
Traditional craft skills and arts of Al-Mudhif building - UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage
Al-Mudhif is a large arched building made of reed and papyrus, both of which grow naturally in the marshes of southern Iraq. The building serves as a gathering place where members of the community can exchange, address conflicts, share experiences, tell stories and practise cultural activities and social rituals such as weddings, circumcisions, religious ceremonies and national celebrations. Al-Mu...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Angram is a tiny hamlet in Upper Swaledale, between the villages of Muker and Keld. The surrounding environment is rich: the wet grasslands at Angram Bottoms support a diverse flora including orchids, sedges and marsh plants and is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The middle pond is now full! And the stream is flowing down towards the lowest one that we just finished expanding over the summer. There are a bunch of small ponds between the middle and lower one so it might take a couple hours until the lower one starts filling up. Maybe more. 🌱
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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The ponds are starting to fill back up! Just our most upstream one so far. But more rain is on the way later this week and it should be enough to fill up our entire third of an acre of restored wetlands. I'm just wrapping up expanding the lowest pond. Can't wait to see it all full again! 🌱
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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The outlet creek of Lac Beauvert, Jasper National Park, Canada. 🏔️
October 14, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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The larches are changing colour out at Wagner Natural Area! If you've never been, it's a beautiful time of year to visit.
October 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Black-fruited sedge, good for butterflies, with coneflower and coreopsis leaves in autumn decline. The garden rock has gouges most likely made while being carried in the Laurentide Ice Sheet, as I pulled it out of a native clay bank on Lake Ontario. #gardening #sedges #gardensky #bloomscrolling
September 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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technically sedges are also not grasses
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September 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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I 😍SEDGES 🌱
Sedges are such champions of diversity. There is a sedge for any (temperate) habitat. They all have their unique vibe.
get yr sedges *on sale*
Sedges are such champions of diversity. There is a sedge for any (temperate) habitat. They all have their unique vibe.
get yr sedges *on sale*
Now through October 6th, all ten of the sedges in stock here at Nobody Nursery are automatically 30% off. This post is part of a spotlight series to introduce these delightful species, most of which are rarely commercially available elsewhere.
What’s the point of a sedge?
The foundation of . . .
What’s the point of a sedge?
The foundation of . . .
September 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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. . . leaves provide a safe place to rest in or retreat to for small mammals and reptiles, shaded stream margins for fish, and beds for large ungulates. Second to Sphagnum moss, sedges are the largest component of the temperate peatlands that store more carbon than the entire atmosphere.
September 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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“Field Guide to the Sedges of the PNW” (from the Carex Working Group) is an invaluable resource.
The primary function of sedge is arguably forage and cover. The foliage provides valuable food for herbivores like pika, bison, and caterpillars . . .
The primary function of sedge is arguably forage and cover. The foliage provides valuable food for herbivores like pika, bison, and caterpillars . . .
September 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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It's based on a common botany mnemonic, repeated variously as "Sedges have edges and rushes are round / and grasses have joints all the way to the ground" and "Sedges have edges and rushes are around / and grasses have joints when the cops aren't around"
September 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Not only did I find a relatively local greenhouse that promotes native plants on their website
But I discovered them in time to buy the morning star sedges I've been looking for during their end of season sale
#nativeplants
#Canadiangarden
But I discovered them in time to buy the morning star sedges I've been looking for during their end of season sale
#nativeplants
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September 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Two official series descriptions for soils in NW Minnesota. One says "Native vegetation was tallgrass prairie." The other says "Native vegetation is little bluestem, plains muhly, sideoats grama, plains reedgrass, thickspike wheatgrass, western wheatgrass, upland sedges, and a variety of forbs"
September 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Eatin’ tender-green beans right off the vine, walking around the yard noticing all the tiny things, breathing deeply. This moment is okay.
September 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Any day with this number & variety of #sedges is a great day for me.
#FavouritePlant (Plants).
Carex flava, acutiformis, vesicaria, paniculata, laevigata, canescens, remota, binervis, pallescens, flacca & pendula.
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Roudsea NNR, #Cumbria
#FavouritePlant (Plants).
Carex flava, acutiformis, vesicaria, paniculata, laevigata, canescens, remota, binervis, pallescens, flacca & pendula.
#WildflowerHour
Roudsea NNR, #Cumbria
September 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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So that's 3 more tetrads struck off North Aberdeenshire's list of areas with inadequate higher plant records. Highlights from the largely aforested low hills west of Huntly were greater and lesser tussock sedges, late flowering grass-of-Parnassus and a hectad first for the bramble Rubus dasyphyllus.
September 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Deer might eat it anyway. We had lots of red bee balm in front of the Hawk Mt. visitor center. The deer ate it. Among the things we've found they won't eat in the area outside the deer fence are any of the mountain mints, milkweed, and dogbane. They also seem to let some grasses and sedges alone.
September 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A fantastic hummock among the sedges. How many different #Sphagnum species can you identify? 🕵️ #SphagnumMonday #GreatNorthBog
September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Here’s a song for Andrew. I heard he was off cutting sedges or summat.
September 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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A great big darner, freshly emerged 🌿
September 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Earlier in the year I noticed a leaf mine in Pendulous Sedge with several puparia inside. There are various Cerodontha species that feed on sedges but I managed to rear one through and Barry Warrington has determined it as Cerodontha caricicola, which is apparently the first Norfolk record.
March 12, 2024 at 7:55 PM
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I adore them. I miss the masses of Black-headed that were on the Severn in Shrewsbury every year. I was forced to learn them by @rogerriddington.bsky.social and Paul Harvey on Shetland. A punishment for making them look at sedges for a week. Seems fair…
December 16, 2024 at 6:53 PM
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Spring is finally on its way here on our #Oxfordshire #Cotswolds farm. Catkins everywhere, tiny pink buds on the hawthorns, and green shoots on the rushes, sedges and wild flag iris in the water meadow. #naturefriendlyfarming #farming
February 20, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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