Property News · May 21, 2016

Alys Fowler: how to grow grasses


Grasses can hold a garden together plus they’re easy to sow and make great cut flowersLearning to garden in the early noughties meant that I slightly overdosed on grasses. Yes, the right grass can effortlessly hold together a scheme, yes they dance in the wind, produce lovely seed heads in autumn and make a striking bleached presence in winter, yada, yada, yada. But there were too many other things I wanted to grow, so they fell down the list.It’s not that I’ve got to the bottom of my list, far from it. But I’ve been hanging around with a garden designer and I guess it is rubbing off on me, because grasses can hold a garden together. Many are easy to sow, make great cut flowers, and for the price of a packet of seed allow you to experiment. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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