Decorative Grasses For Landscaping
These perennial grasses are beautiful and expertly enhance the flowers in your.
Decorative grasses for landscaping. Generally we do not give any place in our garden to grass but do you know that you can use a variety of garden grass in your garden to enhance the charm of a beautiful landscape and garden. To 6 feet tall. Full sun and well drained soil.
Hakone grass hakonechloa macra a deer resistant grass native to japan. Ornamental grasses can be used to great effect in our gardens from providing a calming presence to more exuberant flowering plants to being the only focus of the design. What makes these grasses or grass like plants decorative is their aesthetically pleasing contribution to your garden.
Ornamental grasses come in various shapes sizes and colors. Blue oat grass helictotrichon sempervirens a grass ornamental with blue or green leaves that looks great in landscaping due to its color. Calamagrostis karl foerster growing conditions.
Prairie cord grass spartina pectinata also known as the freshwater cordgrass this one is basically a native wild grass variety that is slowly getting introduced to ornamental gardening. Whether you are looking to plant a container garden or transform a hillside ornamental grasses make a great addition to any garden design. Extremely hardy in both wet and drought conditions it needs little care and produces tall straight foliage with tiny purple flowers growing in summer.
This ornamental grass is admired for its fall and winter blooming pink flowers or featherlike plumes. Some such garden grasses information here as blue fescue purple fountain grass mexican feathergrass feather reed grass switchgrass japanese forest grass maiden grass ravenna grass cordgrass northern sea oats. Others perform well in containers.
The most popular ornamental grass feather reed grass offers a distinct upright habit that looks fantastic all winter long. In landscape design muhly grass looks best in large or mass clumps in perennial borders or native gardens where its wispy pink blooms offer a lot of visual impact. Karl foester calamagrostis x acutiflora one of the most popular feather reed grasses.