Taken over garden - a few ornamental grasses and dogwoods to identify....
Hi All,
I have recently taken over a garden and I have a few ornamental grasses and a couple of what I think are dogwoods to look after. I've never had wither before and, particularly with the grasses, I am not sure how to treat them (cut right back, light trim, what to feed etc.).
Below are some images for you to look at and I'd appreciate an opinion on each unidentified specimen.
Thanks for looking.......
Unknown 1: http://i.imgur.com/11xXGWw.jpg
Unknown 2: http://i.imgur.com/vUOxild.jpg
Unknown 3: http://i.imgur.com/tYXinMP.jpg These are everywhere. Some are neat like these and some are a bit of a mess
Unknown 4:http://i.imgur.com/LNosmsg.jpg I think there are two types here. The one in the middle I have already tidied up by removeing old dead leaves and removing self seeded/suckers that are in the wrong place/spreading too far. The ones on the right are everywhere and tend to look a bit messy
Unknown 5:http://i.imgur.com/DluFaDu.jpg Think this is a dogwood but not sure what to do with it.....
Unknown 6:http://i.imgur.com/oXHHhnp.jpg Another dogwood? Seems to be more established with thicker trunk.....
Cheers,
Paul
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I think that 3 is deschampsia cespitosa? maybe. 5 and 6 are dogwoods and can be pruned low any time now. 4 the green spiky stuff looks like some sort of crocosmia.
Verdun is the expert on grasses. He should be able to help you.
1, Stipa gigntea with Stipa tenuissimma behind
2, Looks more like Knifophia than a grass
3. Stipa tenuissimma
4. Not sure any of these are grasses. The little ones could be sisyrinchium
5 & 6, Cornus sibirica
In the sticks near Peterborough
I agree with Nut
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In 4. were they seedlings (separate babies) or suckers, (joined to the clump) If suckers I'm thinking hemerocallis (daylily)
In the sticks near Peterborough
I was thinking Hemerocallis for 4. Could 5 be Cornus Alba Elegantissima? the stems look darker than Sibirica, although it could easily be the light. I find Sibirica is more a scarlet red, these stems looks more claret red. As I said, might well be a trick of the light.
I think no 6 could be, I stress COULD be C. Sanguinea Midwinter Fire which hasn't been pruned and, as such, has lost its good winter colour. It seems much more branched than Sibirica.
I don't think it's Midwinter Fire. They look more anaemic if left unpruned rather than reddish. (guess who hasn't pruned her MF)
In the sticks near Peterborough
% might well be alba e.
What about the ones behind the likely hemerocallis?
In the sticks near Peterborough
..agree with others, except 4 I think might be Montbretia and those surrounding are Sissyrinchium idahoense... I have a variety like that called 'Rocky Point'...
the Cornus I think is sibirica 'Westonbirt'...
I've got midwinter fire, its not as red as that one.
If no.4is the broader green plant rather than the grass in the back ground I agree with Salino, thinks it montbretia. Mines coming through at the mo.