Re: Ornamental grasses

Thanks Gene and Marge. That was helpful. I don't think there is a 
dominant in grass at the moment. the Hakonechloa was the last, or maybe 
the Karl Foerster Calamagrostis. I think I should be messing around with 
some Carex somewhere and that Milium effusum 'Aurea' sounds 
interetsting. Does it spread? I  have some low, slow-spreading bamboos 
under a red maple that seem to match well with pachysandra.
Steve Hatch
Marshfield, MA
Zone 6B


Marge Talt wrote:

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