Hi, I took the advice of the forum (they’re very good!). Cut back hard in the early growing season, worked for a year, with new growth. The year after I did again and was patchier. However, now in 2019 they’re all brown and pretty much done for! I didn’t realise how short lived these grasses are, I wanted a permanent cover for the unsightly edge of my pond and I think you only get about 4-6 years out of these grasses, with only the first 3 where they look really good. I have more around my garden at different stages and the older ones are looking like they may go the same way. I have cut one or two outside the growing season and regretted it as they then die off. They don’t much like being moved either (once mature), you can easily move the young self seeded ones.
I have to replace 70 (yep, 70), around my pond diameter this year, not looking forward to it, not sure what to plant but it won’t be these, I may even try to get the lawn grass growing over the edge of the liner if I can just like Nut Cutlets, to be honest I’ve gone right off these grasses !
It may not be the kind of grasses you want. But I have had some Carex Evergold in our garden for twenty odd years. It is rather short and no dramatic nice heads. It has been in short but evergreen ( pale yellow and green variegated), with an occasional splitting and little care. It tends to mound up in tight clumps but you can split it.
I think there are some others, with white variegation, I do appreciate it may not be what you are looking for in effect if you want nice plumes.
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Cut back hard in the early growing season, worked for a year, with new growth. The year after I did again and was patchier.
However, now in 2019 they’re all brown and pretty much done for!
I didn’t realise how short lived these grasses are, I wanted a permanent cover for the unsightly edge of my pond and I think you only get about 4-6 years out of these grasses, with only the first 3 where they look really good.
I have more around my garden at different stages and the older ones are looking like they may go the same way. I have cut one or two outside the growing season and regretted it as they then die off. They don’t much like being moved either (once mature), you can easily move the young self seeded ones.
I have to replace 70 (yep, 70), around my pond diameter this year, not looking forward to it, not sure what to plant but it won’t be these, I may even try to get the lawn grass growing over the edge of the liner if I can just like Nut Cutlets, to be honest I’ve gone right off these grasses !
It is rather short and no dramatic nice heads.
It has been in short but evergreen ( pale yellow and green variegated), with an occasional splitting and little care. It tends to mound up in tight clumps but you can split it.
I think there are some others, with white variegation, I do appreciate it may not be what you are looking for in effect if you want nice plumes.
But long lived and trouble free is undeniable.