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Will my Miscanthus come back?

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    Anemanthele comes from New Zealand. Guess it has suffered like the Phormiums.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    Interesting it's also called Stipa arundinacea. I recall him mentioning a couple of years ago that he was replacing his Stipa tennuissima (now Nassella 🙄) with this 'Pheasant's Tail' grass. Probably wishes he'd kept it now.
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful

  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    My miscanthus are also still fast asleep @LunarSea, even down here. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I have grown Nasella in a pot and rarely watered it at all. I think that both of these grasses hate the wet.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    Panic over .... growth has resumed  :)
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful

  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    That’s a relief @Lunarsea, I divided one of mine last week and it’s happily moving on!
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Several of my Anamanthele look like Monty’s but I’ve cut them back to see if I get any new growth. A couple had one or two wispy green stems so it seemed worth a try, fingers crossed.
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    LunarSea said:
    Panic over .... growth has resumed  :)

    Still panicking over my Panicum though which has still shown no signs of growth. I'm growing mine in a pot and I moved it to a new pot at the same time as cutting it back. Hope I haven't shocked it too much.
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @LunarSea No signs of life here with P Squaw always one og the last plants to show signs of life in the spring. Looks lovely in November so all is forgiven.
     I doubt you will have done any damage. The worst thing you can do is split into small pieces late Autumn they won't grow but will struggle or die in wet soil. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    @LunarSea No signs of life here with P Squaw always one og the last plants to show signs of life in the spring. Looks lovely in November so all is forgiven.
     I doubt you will have done any damage. The worst thing you can do is split into small pieces late Autumn they won't grow but will struggle or die in wet soil. 

    Oooo thanks - that's re-assuring.

    I've just remembered though, when I first potted it up after digging it out of the ground, it was very late to show. I'd been so disappointed with it in the ground that I was in two minds whether to keep it anyway so I wasn't too bothered at the thought of losing it. And then it went on to grow beautifully in it's new pot  :)
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful

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