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Can you please help identify these two Variegated grasses

pageparkpagepark Posts: 27
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Bought from a stall at a Jubilee event. If I know what they are I can find a home for them 

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Could be "Gardener's Garters"
    https://www.jacksonsnurseries.co.uk/phalaris-arundinacea-var-picta.html
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Reasonably well-behaved in my garden, but I've heard that it can become a bit rampant in some situations 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    It’s a thug.  I would only grow it in a pot, not in the ground.  We grow it in our pond as an aquatic plant.  
  • pageparkpagepark Posts: 27
    Thanks for the advice 
  • Arthur1Arthur1 Posts: 542
    Agree. Can be a thug. Especially on damp soils. But an attractive plant.
  • Cambridgerose12Cambridgerose12 Posts: 1,134
    I have it in my (difficult) soil where it limps along but adds just enough interest to be worth keeping, year on year. It isn't a pest there. 

    A really good and non-invasive variegated grass is Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Overdam', which comes up pinkish, and flowers early. But it needs more sun and drier soil. Another one to experiment with, which becomes quite a giant, is Miscanthus 'Cabaret'.
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