When the pond behind Mountjoy 2 was formed, at the end of the 1990s, it was delibaterately plants with a wide selection of native plant species, to create a teaching resource and a habitat for the wide variety of animals that would soon colonised it. The northern and eastern edges of the pond are planted with bullrushes (or, to be botanically correct, reedmace).
Bulrushes are unusual plants inasmuch as they flower in autumn and produce their ripe seeds in spring - the exact reverse of the reproductive sequence of most of our native plants - so in March the 'maces' burst open and release drifting clusters of these cottony seeds.
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