Ornamental Grasses Gallery 2024

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• pitter-patter Posts: 2,429

  20 February

  Looking forward to being inspired.
  
  My miscanthus morning light doesn’t usually flower, but this year it has given me one flowering stem. It looked like a flag and it sparked in the low winter sun. 

  
  

  
  

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  20 February

  You've done well to get Morning Light to flower, I have never managed that here.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• greatnorthernexotic Posts: 119

  20 February

  I really like that tall miscanthus, @Plantminded.
  
  I grow miscanthus x giganteus (seen below) and arundo donax as two tall grasses either side of a small stream. They give nice height to hide a wooden bridge that reveals itself as you wander up a meandering path.
  
  
  
  These were, until recently, considered the tallest two grasses in cultivation - though I'm not sure arundo donax is technically a grass?
  
  However, there is now miscanthus lutarioriparius with is even taller and of course it on my shopping list for this year.

  Growing tropical and desert plants outdoors in West Yorkshire
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• Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

  20 February edited 20 February

  I've just bought a Miscanthus 'Morning Light' but haven't yet worked out where to plant it! Looking forward to seeing it grow.
  I've also got a Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster' which I'm hoping will be ok in a pot on the terrace to hide us from the road behind.

  North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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• LunarSea Posts: 1,923

  20 February edited 20 February

  Nice one @Plantminded. But snow on the Wirral   Whatever next!
  
  Here are two of my favourites. First Stipa gigantea (grown from seed) caught in the early morning light. (To it's right is a small Stipa tenuissima.)
  
  
  
  
  And a new grass I took a punt on. Miscanthus 'Starlight' from Knoll Gardens, here backlit in late November.
  
  
  

  Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 
  
  I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  20 February edited 20 February

  I’m going to have to get a Miscanthus x giganteus after seeing it in your garden @greatnorthernexotic! I noticed it in the garden of Nigel Dunnett on a recent GW episode too. The large one in my photo is M. Malepartus with the taller M. Zebrinus to the left.
  
  

  Yes, we get snow here on rare occasions @LunarSea, but it’s usually sub-tropical😊! Your Stipa gigantea and Miscanthus ‘Starlight’ look fantastic in that lighting.

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  20 February edited 20 February

  I’ve just looked Miscanthus ‘Morning Light’ up in the new book on grasses by Neil Lucas. It says “Topped with perfectly matched pinkish flowers in good years.” You must have had a good year then @pitter-patter!

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• Plantminded Posts: 3,580

  21 February

  This is a recent discovery for me, Molinia Skyracer. It gives excellent vertical height but remains compact at the base. Like all other Molinias I have grown, it does fade in early winter, but it's worth waiting for when it returns!
  
  
  
  

  Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.
  
  
  

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• LunarSea Posts: 1,923

  21 February

  Plantminded said:

  This is a recent discovery for me, Molinia Skyracer. It gives excellent vertical height but remains compact at the base.
  
  

  
  Nice. I like that one.
  
  Deschampsia fulfils a similar brief but is a bit shorter. I've got 'Schottland' which I fell for at Bluebell Cottage Nursery.
  
  I grew it in a pot for its first year. It's the one in the middle, taken in July.
  
  
  
  
  Now it's in the ground in an island bed where it gets more sun. Its the one on the left behind the photobombing Stipa panicles. This was in October.
  
  
  
  
  When it first flowers, it has an airy, almost mist-like appearance which forms a nice backdrop to other perennials.
  
  
  
  

  Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 
  
  I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  

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• Marlorena Posts: 8,705

  21 February

  ^that's a fabulous picture... worthy of a frame.

  East Anglia, England

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