Re: ornamental grass!

Melody,
That is an excellent point. I also learned the hard way to wear long sleeves when cutting them down in the spring. We had always bound them up with bungee cords before but this year we were lazy and just started cutting them off. The tiny fragments got all over us, down our shirts. I had to quit to go change shirts... that didn't help so as soon as we finished cutting and moving them we both had to run to the shower. UGH... felt like fiberglass down your shirt.
Tricia
----- Original Message ----- From: "Melody " <mhobertm@excite.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] ornamental grass!


And remind folks that many, many ornamental grasses have blades that are
as sharp as razors...always, always wear gloves when working with
them...learned this through personal experience! Do you know which
grasses you'll be talking about? One of my favorite big grasses is Zebra
grass (sorry, can't remember the botanical name)...it has spots and is
lovely! But one must remember to plan room for some of these grasses at
maturity...they get huge! My zebra grass is over 8 feet tall and close
to 3 feet wide. Good thing I planted it where it had room to expand.
Perhaps my favorite thing about the grasses in my gardens is what they
do for my garden come winter...they provide great structure and a
beautiful contrast to all the snow.



Melody
Hills, IA  zone 5



--- On Sat 05/14,  < Hollikft@aol.com > wrote:
From:  [mailto: Hollikft@aol.com]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 01:23:31 EDT
Subject: Re: [CHAT] ornamental grass!

We have a lot of ornamental grasses. I know that if you want it to get
high <br>and wide water it plenty! If you want to keep it controlled....
less water. <br> Some of them that are so big we do trim at the end of
spring, and then <br>again in the fall. We also have gotten many new
plants from them, we had no <br>choice as it really was over powering.
Doubt this will help that much, but I <br>tried.<br>
<br>Holli<br>LI,NY.<br> <br> <br>In a message dated 5/14/2005 1:16:06
A.M. Eastern Standard Time, <br>pdickson@sbcglobal.net writes:<br><br>I
am going to be teaching a class at the Vo-tech school next month on
<br>ornamental grasses. Any suggestions or recommendations are very
welcome. <br>This is the first time I have agreed to teach anything but
a class for <br>Master Gardeners and I am wishing that I had said
"NO"!<br>What was I thinking????<br>Thank you in advance for any or all
help!<br>Tricia

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