Re: Stipa arundinacea
- Subject: Re: Stipa arundinacea
- From: Janet Galpin and Oliver Patterson d*@zetnet.co.uk
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:52:24 +0100
The message <50E17FF6DF80E446AE25A8369C18C497038C857B@Athena.schwabe.com>
from "Saxton, Susan" <SSaxton@schwabe.com> contains these words:
> If anyone has read their recent edition of Horticulture magazine,
> there are stunning pictures of this plant on the cover and inside. I
> realize these were taken in northern California, but the plant looks
> to be 3-5' tall in the pictures. On line sources says 2 x 2. Has
> anyone grown this? I'm wondering how big it could get in Oregon or
> how hardy it is.
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I have grown it for several years and have quite a lot of plants. It
self-seeds pleasantly but never enough to become a nuisance.
The colours are very pleasing particularly at this time of year.
I have never known it grow more than an inch or two above 2'. It fills
out over a year or so, so that when it has flower heads, it could flop
open to about 3'. It's classical vase shaped, spreading open but not as
much as, say, Carex comans, so that if you have things growing round its
base they won't get smothered.
All in all an excellent grass and very easy from seed.
Janet, S. Lincs, UK
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