Re: Blue foliage
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Blue foliage
- From: "* D* <m*@teleport.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:27:52 -0700 (PDT)
At 08:51 PM 6/19/98 EDT, DCSTARKE@aol.com wrote:
>I have a old faded red barn on my farm that we are landscaping with some what
>of a naturalistic look, I am in need grass that has a blue colored foliage.
>The only thing that I have found is Helictotrichon semprevirens. Any body have
>any large blueish grasses?
>
>Clay Starke
>Forest Grove OR
Clay, Carol Ottensen's book "Ornamental Grasses" lists Arundo donax (giant
reed grass) as having soft dusty pale green leaves with a slight blue cast,
all the blue Fescues of course, and Elymus glaucus (blue lime grass) along
with the massive, glaucous Cardoon - Cynara cardunculus. But, to my taste,
you already have the very best blue grass in Helictotrychon sempervirens
(Blue Oat Grass).
Marilyn Dube'
NATURAL DESIGN PLANTS
Hardy Perennials, Choice Tropicals
Portland, Oregon
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