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Ornamental Grasses may be used with some flowering perennials to provide a constantly
changing garden. With a background of Grasses, a screen or barrier can be developed. As a screen, these Grasses will be effective most of the year except between the time they are cut back in early spring until new growth becomes tall enough again in late spring or early summer. This garden includes some flowering perennials that can endure the competition from Grasses. However, these are sun-loving flowers that will not survive if the tall Grasses are used to the south of them. In that case, shade-tolerant perennials should be substituted. For longer borders, the design may be easily extended by increasing the number of plants of each kind or repeating the design. Ornamental Grasses add exceptional interest to the fall and winter garden with their unique fall flower forms and seed structure movements that entertain all winter long.
Helpful hints
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Grasses are heavy feeders and require fertile and well-drained soil. Each year add several inches of compost and mulch to improve drainage and build humus in the soil.
- Do not cut back Grasses until late winter or early spring, depending on the last frost in your zone.
- Mix in free-form shrubs such as Arctic Blue Willow, Forsythia, Buddleia, and Kerria japonica.
- Ornamental Grasses are spectacular in flower bouquets for adding foliage texture, height, and contrast to your composition.
a. Achillea ‘moonshine’
b. Alcea ‘singles mix’
c. Artemisia ‘silver mound’
d. Calamagrotis arund. Var. branch.
e. Calamagrostis ‘overdam’
f. Chasmanthium latifolium
g. Coreopsis ‘sunray
h. Deschampsia ‘bronze veli’
i. Deschampsia ‘taurtrager’
j. Dianthus ‘little boy blue’
k. Festuca ‘elijah blue’
l. Festuca ‘select’
m. Koeleria glauca
n. Miscanthus ‘gracollimus’
o. Miscanthus ‘sarabande’
p. Panicum ‘trailblazer’
q. Pennisetum alop. Var. virdescenes
r. Pennisetum ‘hameln’
s. Pennisetum ‘little bunny’
t. Phalaris ‘feesey’
u. Phlox ‘blue boy’
v. Saccharum ravennae
33 Garden Designs for your home:
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Gaining Ground
Front Door Enterance Design
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White Flower Garden Design
Grass Garden Design
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Rose & Perennial Garden Design
Bright Colorful Garden Design
Perennial Corner Garden Design
Butterfly Hummingbird Design
Silver & Blue Garden Design
Bog Garden Design
Pink Flowers Garden Design
All Year Flower Garden Design
Privacy Matter
Woodland Border
Hosta Shade Garden Design
Rock Garden Design
Cold Hardy Perennial Garden Design
English Garden Border Garden Design
Driveway Sidewalk Garden Design
Prairie Garden Design
Flower Garden Design
Entry Shade Garden Design
Hot & Humid Garden Design
Flowering Fiesta
Red White Blue Garden Design
Late Season Garden Design
Southwest Dry Garden Design
Garden for Children
Butterfly Garden Design
Hummingbird Garden Design
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