Re: Ornamental grasses
- Subject: Re: Ornamental grasses
- From: "Gene Bush" g*@otherside.com
- Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 16:59:05 -0400
Hello Steve,
I can answer only one half of your questions since I am a shade
gardener. While I am very fond of H. 'Aureola' and have it in my garden and
the nursery inventory along with the white variegated version, I am going
back to the "original" next spring. I think I like the planting I have of
the "plain green" species. Just took a photo of the green that is in a
raised bed next to a path. The corner of the raised bed has a hypertufa
trough and the species hakone grass forms the background and feathers across
the rim of the trough. Nice... I think. Either the white or the yellow
variegated would have been too busy.
I hear others talking along the lines of more subtle appearance in
design as well.
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5 Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
> Hi all,
> Was just putting together a little something on ornamental grasses and
> thought I'd ask the group what's the latest and hottest. Last I heard,
> Calamagrostis acutiflora Karl Foerster and Hakonechloa macra `Aureola'
> were what were chic. But I tend to be out of touch.
> Steve Hatch
> Marshfield, MA
> Zone 6B
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