If you decide to split them in spring, try placing the divisions in a triangular shape, one on each point, giving you a more impressive clump in future. I created a hedge out of Calamagrostis Karl Foerster that way, using 9 divisions:
I don’t know that variety @plant pauper, it’s not stocked by Knoll Gardens which makes me wonder! This is a good old variety though with dark red flowers:
Just a further thought, don't give your grass any fertiliser/food - too much nitrogen makes the stems lax and prone to falling over, particularly when in flower.
Oh right! I think that could be the problem then. I've recently gave my bananas and gunneras their last feed of the year and I thought I'd put the last of the pellets around the miscanthus, probably about 10 handfuls.
Rain, wind, animals ... oh, and that fertiliser - 10 handfulls !!!
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
This is my Miscanthus Sinensis Red Chief @plant pauper I love it, it’s just beginning to look it’s best with the red feathery bits and they’ll open up even more. I also love how it looks over the winter, it’s a real feature of my border over winter.
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https://www.knollgardens.co.uk/product/miscanthus-malepartus/
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
M.morning light, S.gigantea, Acorus ogon, Anementhale lessiona, Calamagrostis Karl Foerster,carex elata Aurea, Bowles Golden grass, Molinia Edith Dudzus, Elymus magellenicus, Festuca glauca, Hakonechloa aurea, Luzula nivea, Melica albida, Nasellatenuissima, Pennisetum Hamelyn and Sesleria autumnalis.
probably most spelt wrong.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."