I love the grasses Ive planted in my garden these last few months and am looking forward to watching them grow. My first “grass purchase” was earlier this year, in March, when I bought the Panicum virgatum “Shenandoah”, (also known as Red Switch Grass or Shenandoah Switch Grass) and planted into a container. I have lots of sedge growing in my garden, Carex evergold, which has really come into its own this spring, each individual plant has doubled in size and looks simply beautiful.
Inspired by numerous blogs and two books, “Grasses” by Nancy Ondra and “Designing with Grasses” by Neil Lucas, I decided to expand my grass collection and am now the proud grower of Festuca glauca and scoparia, Miscanthus sinesis variegatus and zebrinus, Panicum vigatum “Warrior” and “Shenandoah”, Stipa tenuissima (Mexican feather grass) and Imperata rubrum … and I feel like I’ve only just got started!
Here is my Shenandoah at different times of the year … and I’ve enjoyed them all.
March 2011
August 2011
September 2011
October 2011
November 2011
I love how quickly they grow, how beautiful they look in the garden and how trouble-free they are!
Happy gardening
xxx
4 replies on “Diary of the Switch Grass”
You’ll *really* love the switch grass when it’s formed a bigger clump and you can start dividing it for more plants.
Panicum really does better in the ground though, as its roots can go 3m deep or more!
Oh … thanks for telling me. I’ve been wondering whether I should replant it into the ground. Now I know. And yes, I’m really loving the Panicum, I think I might divide it when I replant it 🙂
You have really become an amazing photographer – what GREAT shots!!
You introduced the whole grass thing to me and I delight in mine EVERYDAY!! Thank you for sharing this love with me! 🙂 I LOVE LOVE my grasses!! And they still have a long way to go!
Thanks Barbs – I don’t think the shots are so great 🙂
I love my grasses too – I just planted the Mexican Feather Grass I bought last week and it just “completes” the corner I planted it in. Such lovely plants!