Horsetails can grow in any kind of soil-even water They don't have leaves-only tiny scales at each node. Stems are tipped with tiny brown cones when mature and horsetails keep their green color all year. The 'Scouring Rush' name came from their use by the early American pioneers who reportedly used them to scour their pots and pans due to the abundance of silica in their stems. This is one tremendous plant-a survivor from the Age of the Dinosaurs. Everyone should have some horsetails just to marvel at and talk about. It's very cold hardy down to -30°F. They grow to 2-3 feet high and multiply rapidly.
About the Author
Glenn Stokes is a third generation nurseryman and his grandfather, Sam Stokes, started the first nursery in Louisiana in 1898. Glenn, is a graduate biologist and entomologist with degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, University of Nebraska, Harvard University, and advanced studies at University of Florida and L.S.U. He became a renowned medical entomologist, consulting on malaria control and mosquito control around the world--including 6 continents. In the process of these travels, which were mostly in subtropical and tropical areas, he became fascinated with tropical plants.
In 1995, he started Stokes Tropicals with a simple idea to mainstream to the gardeners of the world rare tropical plants at reasonable prices. Stokes Tropicals is now world renowned, having won awards for its print catalogs, website, and book on bananas. And Glenn Stokes remains as enthusiastic as ever about tropicals and as he says "anything else that is close to tropicals."
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