Grasses v popular, but missed this thread last night
Great pics - stipa gigantica with its oat flowers is still my favourite though - sort of floaty Like it with verbena bonsariensis too. Ours has yet to flower this year though.
That's funny Verd - I have a birthday this year too...
I don't have many grasses but I love Spartina which is one I had in a previous garden and isn't always readily available. Got a little pot last year at the nursery I go to and it's beginning to get established now. Bright green foliage with fine gold edging . Forms a clump about a metre high with an arching habit. I also love Hakonechloa and there's a spot not far from me which has a huge bed of them which the council put bedding round in the summer. They look fantastic just now although I think the gaudy bedding spoils them!
Just took this pic of Spartina - Hakonechloa is next to it for now but these will be separated later this year to give them more room - they're getting that raised bed more or less to themselves.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have have Red Baron, Stipa Arundinacea and Pennisetum Villosum. I love grasses and the way the move in the wind, I have even left a large patch of the lawn to grow and it is stunning in the sun the flower heads are a golden orange at the moment!
I know the stipa, seeds everywhere, but it is perfect for my really really dry sandy soil, and I have given lots of free plants away to friends and family.
Yeah, I started the love them after visiting Knoll Gardens in Dorset, have you been there? you will love it! They specialise in grasses it's beautiful. I bought Villosum last year and they amazing fluffy heads are looking stunning
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Grasses v popular, but missed this thread last night
Great pics - stipa gigantica with its oat flowers is still my favourite though - sort of floaty
Like it with verbena bonsariensis too. Ours has yet to flower this year though.
A stipa gigantea has had three years and still not flowered. Time to dig it out I think, and replace with something different.
Verdun, have a look at a Sony cybershot. Point and press, everything on automatic,and handy size to keep in a pocket.
That's funny Verd - I have a birthday this year too...
I don't have many grasses but I love Spartina which is one I had in a previous garden and isn't always readily available. Got a little pot last year at the nursery I go to and it's beginning to get established now. Bright green foliage with fine gold edging . Forms a clump about a metre high with an arching habit. I also love Hakonechloa and there's a spot not far from me which has a huge bed of them which the council put bedding round in the summer. They look fantastic just now although I think the gaudy bedding spoils them!
Just took this pic of Spartina - Hakonechloa is next to it for now but these will be separated later this year to give them more room - they're getting that raised bed more or less to themselves.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have have Red Baron, Stipa Arundinacea and Pennisetum Villosum. I love grasses and the way the move in the wind, I have even left a large patch of the lawn to grow and it is stunning in the sun the flower heads are a golden orange at the moment!
I know the stipa, seeds everywhere, but it is perfect for my really really dry sandy soil, and I have given lots of free plants away to friends and family.
Must add the jap blood grass and the overdam to my list!
Yeah, I started the love them after visiting Knoll Gardens in Dorset, have you been there? you will love it! They specialise in grasses it's beautiful. I bought Villosum last year and they amazing fluffy heads are looking stunning