Re: Ornamental grasses

Marge,
Thanks for your ornamental grass comments. Most helpful. Regarding overwintering, I think dark can be OK. The Arnold Arboretum routinely overwinters their rather nice Bonsai collection in a windowless warehouse! I am planning to overwinter my potted cannas in a cool part of the cellar, keeping them in the pots (whacking the tops of course).
Steve Hatch
Marshfield, MA
Zone 6B


Marge Talt wrote:

Not Marilyn here, but I overwintered mine in my cool g.h. last winter
- just moved the pot in before hard frost. I kept pot watered as it
also contained other things - all of which came through fine and are
now looking just as good as they did last year.
Concerned that overwintering in a dark (assume dark) garage might not
work as mine got light...never went dormant; just stopped putting out
new growth or doing much as the g.h. gets down to 40F and a tad lower
at floor level.

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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From: Saxton, Susan <SSaxton@schwabe.com>

So I could try putting them in the garage like geraniums and just

water sparingly?

-----Original Message-----
From: Marilyn Dube [m*@easystreet.com]


Susan, Yes. Some years I'm successful and others not. I never

expect to

save it over, so when I do I am delighted. I try to get them into

the GH

before they are totally dormant. All you have to do is keep the

roots from

freezing. I put them down on the gravel floor under the GH bench

and water

sparingly.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net]

On Behalf

Of Saxton, Susan
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 2:36 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: RE: Ornamental grasses

Marilyn, do you attempt wintering over the dark pennisetum and if

so, how?

-----Original Message-----
From: Marilyn Dube [m*@easystreet.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:41 PM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: RE: Ornamental grasses


Steve,
I decided to try something really big and bold this year -

Miscanthus

'Condensatus'. This is a huge one at 10-14 ft.! Mine are 8-9'

already in 2

gallon pots and haven't started to form the purple flowers yet! I

can't

wait to see this puppy in bloom! It has been a hot item here in

the

nursery.
Another new-to-me grass is Molinia arundinacea 'Skyracer'. The

foliage is

low & compact, but the flower stems grow sky high. Very dramatic.
Using it

to best advantage in the garden has been a challenge for me.
The others I dearly love are Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' (18")

and

'Burgundy Giant' (5'). They are zone 8-10 tender perennials and

used like

annuals, but you simply can't beat that dark burgundy blade and the

puffy

pink foxtails. They make any container look lavish!
Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' is still hot here, as is almost any

blue

colored grass.
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net]

On Behalf

Of Steve Hatch
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:30 AM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Ornamental grasses

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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