Re: One Book on Grasses
Hello Val,
My partner, JoAn, uses that burgundy annual grass ever year around here. She
places it in a large, shallow, clay pot and it gets moved around from place to
place depending upon where she needs the color and accent. Now it has moved into
an arrangement on the front porch with the new mums purchased for the fall season.
Before that it was on a corner of a path helping to swing the eye and traffic
around a bend leading to the deck.
Very versatile annual and is purchased as such each spring with the bedding
plants and herbs.
Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
around the woods - around the world
genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <Lowery@zeonchemicals.com>
Subject: Re: One Book on Grasses
>
> Gene,
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> In all cases, the grasses are at their peak in the late summer-early fall
> period (like right now) and all of those fall-blooming perennials look
> really good with them. Since the grass is such a tall, vertical statement,
> I like pairings that are more blousey (if this is the correct word). In
> the border, I have the silver grass right smack in the middle as a relief
> and accent plant. From the border's ends, you can't see past the grass to
> the rest of the border, so I like the effect. The annual burgundy grasses
> are at the entrance to the patio since they don't grow very tall and they
> accent the grey creekstone walls.
>
> I didn't like grasses myself until I saw them used quite attractively in a
> landscape project. I still don't care for long sweeps of them (reminds me
> of open prairie, which looks odd in a residential setting) but I like them
> as accents and definitely in the company of flowering perennials.
>
> Val in KY
> zone 6a
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