I have been asked a few times by many to put together a more detailed post on the Grass Feature in my front garden. It is one of my very special places in my garden and takes pride of place (ok – the veggie patch is still the number one!) This is the month of its 1st Anniversary, so we can really go back and see how it looked 1 year ago.
There are a variety of grasses and they were all chosen to work well together – height, shape and colour. I remember the planning and drawing and the digging and arranging and re-arranging. It was one of my more dramatic and labour intensive projects because of the dry river bed feature in the middle of it all.
As it looks now – with all the grasses labelled.
1. Pennisetum “Red Buttons”
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2. Carex Buchananii
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3. Carex Amazon Mist
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4. Festuca Glauca
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5. & 8. Calamagrostis “Karl Foerster”
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6. Miscanthus Sinensis Gracillimus
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7. Panicum Virgatum “Shenandoah”
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14. Aristida & other
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I hope that this has been interesting. It was great to see how this Grass Feature keeps changing through the seasons – Autumn shows a new face.
Happy Gardening xxx
12 replies on “Grasses highlighted – 1st anniversary”
I get so surprised to see the same plants being used clear across the world in many cases. Most of what you have in your garden, I regularly use in design work. They are reliable and containable.
I’m soooo proud of what you did here Barbie!! And I am looking forward to you helping me design my new bed!!
I just love how you’ve combined all the different grasses with all the different hues and sizes! They compliment each other so nicely. What a great corner! I’m never quite sure where to place grass in my garden, so I love all your posts about it!
Thank you so much – it helps when you go to ONE nursery and find all the grasses you need! I know that I will now use more grasses in my other patches, like Christine has done.
Your grasses combine beautifully! I think they are perfect with your dry river bed.
Grasses are my absolute favourites in the garden and I wouldn’t be without them. Yours work really well and I’m sure give all year interest and movement in your Australian garden. Christina
Thank you Christina – the seasonal changes are interesting – October being my favourite so far!
Ah hemm… we are in Cape Town South Africa! 🙂
Beautiful!
I’m 100% positive #6 is not Miscanthis sinensis ‘Gracillimus’ or any other Miscanthus. I looked through my ornamental grasses book and it might be an Eragrostis species — a “lovegrass” — I’m not really sure though. Can you post or email me close-up photos of the grass blades and seed heads?
Haa… I will take a photo for you – close up. I have also seen an article on grasses in my gardening magazine, and their photo of Miscanthus is the same as mine. I will also take a photo of this and show you! We will get to the bottom of this “stranger” in my grass patch! 🙂
This is looking so great – well worth the back breaking work!
In theory grasses should grow in my garden and I really should sow the seed I bought last year when I was in the throes of my prairie gardening passion, But do I still love them enough to try? Or am I just a star-crossed lover fearing failure expecting the howling winds to tear them to shreds? Oh dear is this the seeds of another Gardening Dilemmas post?
Happy Easter from a wet, cold and windy island.
Barbie I adore this grass garden…I have some of the same grasses but they just don’t do as well in my garden…yours has turned out spectacular!!