We are starting to appreciate grasses. Both beginner gardeners and professional designers like them.Thanks to the enormous variety of species, ornamental grasses can be grown in virtually all conditions, creating arrangements that are visually attractive all year round.
Medium quiver
Medium quiver Briza media has nice flower and seed heads. It blooms from May to August. This species can grow in dry to slightly damp soil in full sun or partial shade.Flower ears are from 20 to 40 centimeters high, they are cut in autumn, leaves are removed only in spring. Then the plants can be multiplied by division. The quiver is suitable for heather and natural gardens, its stems can be used for dry bouquets.
Turf dairy
Deschampsia caespitosa occurs naturally in wetlands, it can grow in both sun and shade in the garden (flowering is more abundant in the sun). Ideally, the substrate should be slightly damp. It blooms in June.At first the panicles are green, then they turn sandy, some varieties are yellow.The daredevil can be 30 to 120 centimeters tall and take on a more or less spreading habit. We can reproduce it by dividing in spring or autumn. Cut the shoots in the spring.
Popielata Kostrzewa
Fescue popielata Festuca glauca. Behind this botanical name there is not one plant, but a whole group of grasses that are very similar to each other, which can be distinguished only after the chromosomes have been counted. Fescue feels best in full sun, it also tolerates partial shade. It tolerates drought well.The plants have to be divided every few years. After flowering, the shoots can be trimmed slightly. Fescue can be planted in heather gardens, it is also a good ground cover plant (about 10 plants). Leaves with a strong blue color have the 'Blaufink', 'Boulder Blue' and 'Blaugut' varieties.
Cylindrical imperata
Imperata cylindrical Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron' looks impressive from late summer to autumn, when the tips of the leaves are copper-colored (unfortunately, it disappears with the onset of frost).The cylindrical imperata rarely exceeds 40 centimeters in height and can be grown in pots.
Imperata brevifoli is much taller, with inflorescences up to 100 centimeters high. Imperata cylindrical likes full sun positions, tolerates light shade, prefers well-drained, fertile soils.It becomes drought resistant with age. The grass is sensitive to frost, so the leaves should not be cut until late spring.
Hakonechloa slender
Hakonechloa slender Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' is considered to be one of the most valuable ornamental grasses. In lower temperatures, the leaves turn reddish in color, turning into a copper shade in autumn. The 'Aureola' variety blooms in July / August, reaching a height of 30 - 60 centimeters.
This grass grows best in luminous shade (or partial shade), in moderately moist and humus ground.In colder parts of the country it can also develop in the sun. Plants are propagated by division in spring. Hakonechloa is suitable for growing in flower beds, by the water. Can be grown in containers.
