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Grasses highlighted – 1st anniversary

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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9.  Deschampsia Caespitosa “Tuffed Hair Grass”

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10. & 13. Phorium Rubra nana & 11. Pennisetum Setaceum Rubrum-Red Fountain Grass

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12. Carex Frosted Curls

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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

 

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Grass Feature – Part 2

Grass feature finished

The Dirty Gardener!I have finally finished! Whew! It has been a gruelling 2 days hard labour – my back is in spasms and my left hand middle finger is swollen and sore! But all the aches and pains aside – it was a wonderful experience from start to finish. All the excitment when putting pen to paper and actually seeing  it come to life!

From the adventure we took to Elgin Valley to buy the grasses, to the painful digging and planting of my trees,  to the continuous shopping for sand, stones, compost, and more plants, to the marking out and constant rearranging of each grass, to the individual planting of each one! It was a true labour of love and I always kept my intentions full of love and goodness. This is so important when I work with plants because they feel it and I truly believe that they grow better!  I even bought LOVE that I planted in the garden. Can you see it? Well, all I can say while I stand back and gaze at my beautiful grass garden – It is really and truly BEAUTIFUL!! No more to say ……you can see for yourself! So, let the dirty gardener go and clean up all the mess I made and get out of the rain!!

Enjoy the photos!

[one_half]Grass feature with river bed[/one_half]

[one_half_last]River bed layout[/one_half_last]

[one_half]River bed[/one_half]

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[one_half]Grass feature nearly done[/one_half]

[one_half_last]Grass feature finished[/one_half_last]

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Grass Feature – Part 1

Grass Patch

Hi Chris, I wanted to upload a completed Grass Feature post, but this is not to be – yet! I was so convinced it would take me a few hours on Good Friday morning to get it looking ‘mooi’ but it is Saturday evening and I’m STILL not finished. So here was yesterday’s big graft! I had to drop my tools at 6pm when the sun was setting and it was starting to get cold. Will post today’s photo’s tomorrow – I am still in my grubby gardening clothes. I worked non-stop from 10am until 6pm AND I had to get 2 extra bags of river sand for my ‘dry river bed’ feature. Needless to say, I came home with a car full of MORE stuff!!!  Sorry, Chris – I didn’t take photo’s – it was literally grab and in the garden to plant! So Check out  Part 2 tomorrow when I will most definitely be finished!!! 🙂

How’s the big Bulb Planting going??? It’s back breaking, hey?

[one_half]Grass Patch[/one_half]

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[one_half]Weed guard down[/one_half]

[one_half_last]River bed layout[/one_half_last]

The last photo was taken this morning…… so you can see the progress already! Today I worked like a demon, so I am totally exhausted! You will be amazed at how this area has been transformed!! I am so impressed!!