With a little imagination and a slightly broader palette of plants, these ornamental grass combinations showcase your grasses all season.
Ornamental grasses are one of the most useful types of plants you can use in your landscape designs; here are five ideas to get you started, plus lots of beautiful grasses to achieve your favorite look.
Compact grass with a striking impact! Feather reed grass creates a fast privacy screen. Easy to grow and thrives in nearly any soil. Long-lasting blooms add a contrast in texture. Zones 4-8, sun, 60" tall x 24" wide at maturity.
1 Live Plant - Potted Small starter plant in 2" pot Purple fountain grass is a drought tolerant grass that forms a tidy, dense clump of purplish maroon blades topped with rose-red plumes. It is very fast growing and tends to be an arching, upright plant. FYI AFTER OCTOBER 15TH ITEMS WILL BE EITHER DORMANT OR GOING INTO A DORMANT STATE We live in NorthCentral Ohio Low maintenance Grows to about 4' tall Needs full sun Can tolerate temperatures above 20°F Toxicity: Non-toxic to humans and pets USDA hardiness zones for outdoor planting: 8-11
Ornamental grasses grow quickly and require very little maintenance. Many ornamental grasses that are commonly used in the landscape are hardy to zone 4 or below. Click the article that follows to lea
Beautiful ideas for landscaping with tall or short ornamental grasses that you can plant yourself! Creative gardening ideas!
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Medinilla magnifica is small evergreen shrub native to the Philippines where it is usually found growing on trees in tropical forests. It has been grown for hundreds of years as an exotic houseplant.
Oreganos can be used as a culinary herb or as an ornamental plant or both. I describe and compare 7 different oreganos with lots of images and charts.
Easy to make and use, this all natural insect spray DIY for gardens was tested on badly attacked plants and worked with only 2 applications!
You’re either a lover or hater of ornamental grass. It comes in lots of colours and textures and can be wild and bushy. If your style is contemporary then this garden will suit. It gives a bold impact to your landscaping. It’s decorative and low-maintenance so you can’t really go wrong. They can look simple...
Perfect for driveways and containers growing Dwarf Ornamental Trees is one of the best ways to add an appeal to the architectural design of your home!
Guide to Corkscrew Rush Plants for everything you will ever need to know! Tips for planting and caring for “Juncus effusus 'Spiralis'”
Try any of these dwarf trees to brighten up small gardens, and balconies, including flowering trees like evergreen spruces, and delicious dwarf apple trees.
Prayer Plants can be low maintenance beauties, and with the right care, they will dominate the plant shelfie! Here is what you need to know to keep your Calathea, Maranta, Stromanthe and Ctenanthe in good health and looking as stylish as ever.
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Coleus is a versatile shrub, that grows well in shady areas/ Some varieties that can grow quite well in sunny spaces. Growing coleus in your garden can provide that additional "pop" of color that you may be missing. In this article, certified master gardener and coleus enthusiast Laura Elsner teaches you how to plant, grow, and care for coleus!
I am excited to share that The National Garden Bureau has chosen the allium as the bulb of the year! They pick one annual, one perennial, one bulb crop and one…
Ornamental grasses add texture and variety to landscapes and backyards and are known to be low-maintenance. Here are the 26 best ones to consider and why.
Elegant and sophisticated, silvery-tinged plants and shrubs create a considered scheme in your garden.
What adds sound and movement to the garden as well as a graceful beauty no other class of plants can top? Ornamental grasses! Find out about zone 4 ornamental grasses in this article. Click here to ge
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Have you been thinking about adding the best Red Ornamental Grasses in your garden? Choose the best varieties from our compiled list!
The site: A medieval nobleman's summer retreat, a palace in ruins, in the Piedmontese hills of northern Italy. The challenge: Create a modern garden to com
Le stipa ou "cheveux d'ange" est une graminée légère et incontournable des jardins secs. Découvrez ses variétés et nos conseils pour le planter, le cultiver et l'entretenir au jardin.
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Description: HQ Plants Pennisetum Alopecuroides Lampenputzergras Fountain Hameln Version02 The Pennisetum genus includes a variety of ornamental grasses known for their soft, fuzzy flower plumes. Part of the Poaceae family, these plants are also commonly referred to as fountain grasses. A mound-forming ornamental grass and a garden favorite, as the care of fountain grass is […]
Ornamental grasses are one of the most useful types of plants you can use in your landscape designs; here are five ideas to get you started, plus lots of beautiful grasses to achieve your favorite look.
Try a few alliums in your flower gardens this season and discover the grace and good manners of these under-appreciated perennials.
Probably responsible for the trend toward the use of ornamental grasses in landscape design is this specimen, Feather Reed Grass. In addition to being a valuable asset to fresh and dried flower ar…
Thoughts about our garden. “We desire,” the Emporer dictated, “that in the garden there should be all kinds of plants.” Charlemagne the Great I do a lot of writing about gardens, but our own personal garden has never been the subject of this blog. Our garden is always a backdrop to my thinking about gardens and gardening—a sort of character in my story whose face is never revealed. There are many reasons for this: first, our garden is just in the process of being established; I’m a terrible photographer and our garden is surrounded on three sides by unattractive roads and on one side by our unattractive house; and mostly because the act of gardening feels profoundly personal to me. It was designed for us, for our own pleasure, so the idea of opening for public consumption is a bit terrifying to me. BEFORE: The garden area when we bought the house. But I love other blogs that openly share their own gardens. James Golden’s View from Federal Twist is a brilliant blog about two wonderful gardens. That James bears his own soul through the garden is a source of endless inspiration to me. I’m just not that brave. And Scott Weber’s Rhone Street Garden is another fantastic blog. Scott transforms his small garden into and endless expanse through the lens of his camera. Through his images, I see and enjoy Scott’s garden much in the way he probably does. Nasella tenuissima and Salvia 'Caradonna' So in homage to other bloggers who bravely open their own gardens to public scrutiny, I am adding a few images of our own “in-process” garden. This spring marks two full years since I began smothering a triangular wedge of lawn in our sunny side yard. This area was too small to be a usable lawn, and too close to the road to be an enjoyable outdoor use area, so it seemed like a practical area for a garden. The sipping terrace which my brother-in-law calls the "duck blind" in late summer The house we bought was a neglected mid-century ranch which we essentially gutted, so my wife and I have poured our resources and time into renovating the house room by room. The only way to afford the renovation was to do everything ourselves, so that has left little time and money for the garden. The assembly of plants—and assembly is a much more accurate term than design—is a result of what we could get cheaply, what we could divide, what was available, and what would survive the mid-summer heat and humidity. This approach is probably entirely familiar to most gardeners, yet entirely problematic from my point of view as a designer. The garden becomes a product of impulse purchases and ad hoc decisions, not careful planning. Kniphofia 'Salley's Comet' with Pleioblastus viridistriatus, Nepeta "Walker's Low' and Eschscholzia californica But I’ve decided to embrace this non-designed approach. Design has its limitations, too. Any designer who has ever installed a garden, walked away, and then visited that garden five years later learns that design is not a singular vision set to paper; design is a thousand of little decisions and actions made through the life of the garden. Iris 'Persian Berry', one of the most exquisite colors I've ever seen With no real design to speak of, the garden has only a sort of guiding philosophy: plant only that which gives us pleasure. To use an admittedly pretentious term, our garden is a sort of “pleasaunce” by default, an archaic term for pleasure-garden. The concept of a pleasure garden is a bit antiquated these days. We are now much more likely to call non-food bearing gardens ornamental gardens. But “ornamental” is such a poor descriptive phrase. Who picks plants like they would pick wallpaper? To match their exterior trim? The worst gardens are those that aim to be merely decorative. No, we pick plants to live with us because they give us pleasure. I was recently re-acquainted with the idea of pleasure gardens when I re-read one of my favorite garden books, Rose Standish Nichols’ English Pleasure Gardens. It is a book I often pick up, read a chapter, and then put it away for a while. This century-old book is a compelling story of the English garden as viewed through three centuries of garden history. Throughout the book, one theme keeps emerging throughout the millennia: gardens exist for our pleasure. Christopher Lloyd’s writings have also been an inspiration of late. Perhaps I’ve spent too many years designing gardens, too many years of balancing client’s desires with safe plant selections. I love the almost garish quality of Dixter’s Long Border. The way it thumbs its nose at “tasteful” gray, pink, and blue color harmonies. The way it mixes tropicals, shrubs, perennials into one boisterous expression. Like Dixter, I would love a garden dedicated to nothing but horticultural craftsmanship. ''Beware of harboring too many plants in your garden of which the adjectives graceful and charming perpetually spring to your besotted lips,'' Lloyd warns as he clutches a black-leafed Canna. I love that. Dixter’s great triumph (and perhaps its downfall) is that it employs every tool in the planter’s toolkit all at once. The result is a hot mess, but one of the purest expressions of horticultural exuberance I’ve ever known. And what a joy that is. Cotinus 'Royal Purple' center (coppiced yearly), Savlia sclarea, Miscanthus 'Morning Light' and Alliums Perhaps all gardening is an attempt to re-create Eden, but our garden has absolutely no paradisiacal qualities. As a result of its placement next to an ugly house and an ugly road, we’ve adopted a more postlapsarian style. In the border, we have an ecumenical selection of wetland plants, desert grasses, South African bulbs, native forbs, and color foliage shrubs. Anything goes as long as it goes. The other side of our yard, we are beginning another more restrained garden evocative of a woodland edge. But in the border, there is no room for restraint, only more and more plants. Nasella tenuissima, Salvia 'Caradonna' and Allium 'Purple Sensation' In this blog, I am often guilty of heaping too much meaning on gardens, burying a simple act under too many metaphors. Perhaps it is an effort to justify my own profession, to add more significance to my calling than actually exists. If a garden exists simply for our own pleasure, what then? Perhaps that is enough. All I know is that gardening is hard work that reveals many agonies and few ecstasies. So despite the garden’s many flaws and failings, when the afternoon sun hits a patch of Feather grass and silhouettes the violet stems of Salvia ‘Caradonna’, it is enough for me. For now, I am pleased. Phlomis tuberosa and Hibiscus 'Fantasia' The ever ubiquitious, but entirely useful Spiraea 'Goldflamme' with Zahara Zinnias Our native-ish garden, planted this srping.
The quickest way to start a new asparagus patch is to plant young living rooms known as crowns. In the right location, this perennial vegetable will provide ample yields for years to come.
Guide to tortoise-safe garden plants, including plants tortoises like, tortoise-friendly plants, and plants that are edible and non-toxic to tortoises.
