The queen rules with elegance in mixed containers

Oh my gosh, the queen has spoken.

I am talking about the plant queen, who indeed does rule all mixed container designs in 2023: Queen Tut papyrus, Proven Winners’ new selection in their Grace ful Grasses program.

I’ve been showing several images in previous articles, and even more on my Face book page. The gardening public has gone simply wild about the delicate look pro vided by each tufted airy stem. I simply forgot that last year was a trial year for garden writers and such, and therefore this year it is new to the gardening public.

Botanically speaking it is

Cyperus prolifer, and despite it being from Africa, you do not need the Nile River to grow it (or any river, creek or body of water). You may have seen some growing in water gardens, but they will do just fine in mixed containers.

Since you will be growing it in a mixed container, you do not need to worry about how perhaps it needs more water than your Superbells, Superbenas or Supertunias. Most of us are relegated to watering our containers every day in the summer, and this will be perfectly fine for the queen. The next biggest fear or misconception: If Prince Tut papyrus needed the jaws of life to get out of the pot, surely this will be the same with Queen Tut. This is simply not the case – or it wasn’t for me, as I simply pulled them out of last year’s containers. These are annuals everywhere I have lived, but they might be perennial in zones 9 and warmer.

Queen Tut is the grassy element you have longed for. It reaches 18 to 24 inches tall with a 12-to-18-inch spread. When you design your containers, don’t worry about its

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spread. Simply plant it in the center and then start placing fillers and spillers around it. (I can tell many of you are fretting over how many plants are in your containers – or maybe mine.)

You might be asking, what size of container is that? You put how many plants in there? Most of my pots are 14 inches; I have a couple of 16-inch pots and a few in the 10-to-12-inch category. I am a sucker for reconstituted bamboo and agave containers and was forcibly stopped at the back door as I was taking my wife’s glazed orange pot made out of paper.

My 14-inch pots have a

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