Is there any rule of thumb by which, at this time of year, you can tell which grasses it's ok to chop back and which ones will end up with a bad haircut?
If they're evergreen types, like carex, or stipa you can "comb" out any old bits. Wear stout gloves and just pull your hands through them.
Deciduous types like Miscanthus can be cut down hard. Beware any new growth which might have started.
So. Grassy looking grass - comb. Ones that go brown and crispy - cut back.
What about grassy looking ones that are all brown - dead?
What if just the tips are brown and they won't comb out?
Thanks for advice. I will have to fish out my labels and see what I've got. I think they're in the murky depths of the bottom of my tool bucket.
I agree with much of what Verdun says, but in my experience, S.arundicea do not recover from cutting back and neither do S.tennuissima.
This may be climatic [ almost typed climactic then! ]
A climactic effect might be interesting though
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If they're evergreen types, like carex, or stipa you can "comb" out any old bits. Wear stout gloves and just pull your hands through them.
Deciduous types like Miscanthus can be cut down hard. Beware any new growth which might have started.
So. Grassy looking grass - comb. Ones that go brown and crispy - cut back.
What about grassy looking ones that are all brown - dead?
What if just the tips are brown and they won't comb out?
Thanks for advice. I will have to fish out my labels and see what I've got. I think they're in the murky depths of the bottom of my tool bucket.
I agree with much of what Verdun says, but in my experience, S.arundicea do not recover from cutting back and neither do S.tennuissima.
This may be climatic [ almost typed climactic then! ]
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
A climactic effect might be interesting though