ornamental grasses eg Festuca Grass

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• hi2u_uk Posts: 58

  June 2023

  JennyJ said:

  I think the red/purple ones in the J. Parkers mix are pennisetum, which is not always reliably hardy in much of the UK.
  

  To be honest i dont think is good that we need to guess the type of plant they are going to send. I would prefer it if the actually state the plant to enable me to research it a bit more 

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  June 2023

  I have a sneaking suspicion they send whatever hasn't sold well as individual named types in those mixtures. But maybe I'm being over-cynical.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• Loxley Posts: 5,698

  June 2023

  Festuca is pretty easily available, should be able to pick them up at any garden centre, B&Q, Homebase, The Range etc.

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 

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• hi2u_uk Posts: 58

  June 2023

  Pete.8 said:

  hi2u_uk said:

  all i want it a small clump of ball shaped grass. I might get a topiary ball or a bay tree

  Pittosporum Golf Ball?
  Not hardy throughout the UK but get to an eventual size of about a 1m sphere. Evergreen & quite slow growing
  Or
  Hakonechloa Macra?
  I have 10 and though they die back over winter the papery dead stems with seed heads still look and sound good. It won't self-seed either.

  Pete.8 said:

  hi2u_uk said:

  all i want it a small clump of ball shaped grass. I might get a topiary ball or a bay tree

  Pittosporum Golf Ball?
  Not hardy throughout the UK but get to an eventual size of about a 1m sphere. Evergreen & quite slow growing
  Or
  Hakonechloa Macra?
  I have 10 and though they die back over winter the papery dead stems with seed heads still look and sound good. It won't self-seed either.

  Thank you for the suggestion. The plant will be going in an area of soil where another plant died so it needs to be a hardy plant
  The leaves on Hakonechloa Macra look a bit angry to me but i like the not self seeding aspect 

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• Slow-worm Posts: 1,630

  June 2023

  I have Festuca blues, one is in shallow garden soil, the other in depleted soil, both doing well after a few years. This is the true colour. 

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