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Re: Perfect pairings

> In addition to "traditional" American plant pairings, there is the "new
> style," usually credited to Oehme, Van Sweden and Associates, a
> landscape architecture firm in Washington DC. Oehme Van Sweden uses
> broad sweeps of grasses and perennials, chosen for attractive form and
> strong foliage shapes and flower heads. Typical combinations include
> Miscanthus, Pennisetum, and Calamagrotis grasses, sedges such as Carex,
> and clumps of Rudbeckia fulgida, lavenders, sedums (particularly Autumn
> Joy and Ruby Glow, and Ceratostigma. Accompanying ground covers are
> ajugas, asarums, Galium odoratum, lamium, and Stachys bynzantia.

So *this* is who originated the wide overplanting of non-native invasive
grasses, seas of Autumn Joy sedum, and ajuga!

Don't get me wrong, these are wonderful plants, but they are
EVERYWHERE.  The builders gave me Miscanthus, I bought one Ajuga, and
refuse on principle to buy "Autumn Joy" just because everyone else has
it.  No doubt a lovely plant, but egads!  Actually, no one in my
wall-to-wall carpet grass neighbourhood has it, so I'd actually be
tres nouvelle here, but..

What's the *latest* design trend so I can keep an eagle eye out for it?

-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@austx.tandem.com, Austin, TX, USDA zone 8b, Sunset zone 30
*or* amyr@mpd.tandem.com
Jill O. *Trades, Mistress O. {}
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