Re: Ornamental grasses
- Subject: Re: Ornamental grasses
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 00:20:32 -0400
Gene, have I missed something in your catalog? Do you offer the
plain green species of Hakonechloa? I've been looking for that. I
would not give up the variegated forms for one minute...in fact, lust
for massive swaths of them, which does not seem to be in the cards as
they expand very slowly for me.
Steve, to answer your question...I have no clue what the latest
"greatest" is...I just grow what will grow for me...I am a Carex fan
(not a true grass, but a sedge); several new clones of that around
and you can hardly go wrong with a Carex. Also very nice for the
shady garden is Milium effusum 'Aurea'....soft mounding grass with
bright yellow early foliage fading to chartreuse that grows very well
in quite a bit of shade and seeds true.
There are also some new variegated forms of Ophiopogon out there...at
least Plant Delights lists a couple I was not familiar with.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Gene Bush <genebush@otherside.com>
>
> 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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