{"id":146453,"date":"2024-07-19T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-low-growers-to-bright-fountains-ornamental-grasses-have-your-garden-covered\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T17:18:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:18:40","slug":"from-low-growers-to-bright-fountains-ornamental-grasses-have-your-garden-covered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/from-low-growers-to-bright-fountains-ornamental-grasses-have-your-garden-covered\/","title":{"rendered":"From low-growers to bright fountains, ornamental grasses have your garden covered"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWith more grasses to choose from every year, new and unusual varieties are the key to transforming sparse flower bedsMy first foray into ornamental grasses was\u00a0a disaster: I made the wrong choices, put them\u00a0in the wrong places, and snipped them back at the wrong time.\u00a0The result, aside from the\u00a0splodgy mess, was a confidence knock. But I\u00a0have since developed a great affection for them, not\u00a0least\u00a0in creating my own garden, where slender clumps of Molinia caerulea, and the gentle sprays of\u00a0Chasmanthium latifolium seed heads, have proved\u00a0the most enchanting of late-season perennials. Pennisetum \u2018Black Beauty\u2019, with its\u00a0broad\u00a0abundance of dusky flower spikes, is hands-down the best plant I\u2019ve grown in years.The popularity and range of ornamental grasses available has never been greater. The stately pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana) used to be one of the very few representatives (and according to urban myth, one in the front garden was a not-so secret symbol that the residents were swingers). But then followed the \u201cnew perennial movement\u201d of the 1990s and early 2000s, whose generous tussocky drifts lifted grasses into the mainstream. Now, thanks to the naturalistic aesthetic in gardens, there are grasses for all arenas and in every conceivable form, from low-growers such as fescue and melick to the shimmering fountains of deschampsia, panicum and calamagrostis, whose\u00a0cultivars seem to double in number each year. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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