Ornamental grasses for the garden
Ornamental grasses for the garden: photo
It is customary to decorate a summer cottage with flowers and ornamental plants, but what if you want something unusual? You can grow colorful ornamental grasses on the site! The colorful and textured grass will transform the ground in your garden into a real rug.
- Cylindrical imperial (red baron, rubra).
Add a splash of color - this vibrant perennial herb has a very dramatic look. Thin bright green leaves at the tips turn ruby-red, and by the end of summer they turn into green-gold and dark garnet colors.
This ornamental grass on the site grows up to 50 cm, is non-aggressive, does not spread over the site and is compatible with other plants. Grows well in the sun, but also tolerates partial shade. The Red Baron can grow outdoors in winter if protected with straw mulch.
- Hakonehloya is a big "Aureola".
Create a Japanese-style garden! This stunning ornamental herb up to 40 cm tall with elegantly flowing cascading foliage is one of the finest grasses that can beautify a garden. Long thin golden leaves with green stripes create a waterfall effect when decorating the site.
The color of the hakonechloi variety "Aureola" is strongly influenced by the temperature - in the warmth the yellow color predominates, with temperature drops and cold snaps a reddish tint appears. Loves partial shade, humid and humus-rich soil, does not tolerate direct sunlight and drafts.
- Ornamental grasses: Pennisetum foxtail (elephant grass, fountain grass, purple pinnate).
Corresponding to the comparison with a fountain, pennisetum leaves in the wind create the effect of flowing streams of water, this will bring revitalization to your site. This plant is resistant to cold, heat and undemanding to soil, can grow on stones and rocks, loves the sun, grows up to 60 cm.
Pennisetum Hameln is distinguished by reddish-brown inflorescences, thin juicy green leaves that turn golden in autumn, Pennisetum Hameln Gold will provide a splash of bright yellow foliage in the garden.
- Ornamental grasses: Fine feather grass (Mexican feather grass).
An annual herb up to 50 cm tall with fluffy spikelets on top of thin threadlike stems creates an airy landscape view in your garden. Feather grass is resistant to cold and heat, unpretentious to the soil, but is able to quickly spread over the site.
- Miscanthus chinese zebrinus (fan, zebrina, pampas grass).
A wide, spreading plant is a great choice for adding height and structure to the back of your plot. This is a close relative of sugarcane, the bluegrass family, grows up to 2 meters.
Zebrina is incredibly effective with its luscious greens and creamy range blossoms, and by the end of summer, the greens turn to gold with plumes of copper-pink flowers. Miscanthus loves fertile soil, bright sunlight and a sheltered planting site.
Chinese Miscanthus "Strictus" variety is distinguished by hard foliage of rich emerald tone with many light stripes, ears with a single burgundy flower.
Miscanthus variety "Klein Zilbeshpine" is also beautiful with different shades of yellow, brown, burgundy, fluffy panicles rise on tall, thin stems, and at the end of summer they turn silvery-white.
Ornamental grasses for the garden: photo
- Hairy sedge (shaggy sedge).
Sedge variety "Bronze Perfection" is a hardy, compact and unpretentious plant up to 40 cm tall, with hard bronze foliage.
Grows well both in the sun and in the shade, loves well-drained soil, easily takes root near rivers and streams. Milk Chocolate sedge has dark brown pinkish foliage.
- Narrow-leaved fluffy (puff, hare's tail).
This interesting perennial ornamental herb is found in an area of 65 cm in height in acidic peat bogs, where it spreads, forming an evergreen colony.
If you can offer wet, acidic soil and water, then your garden will be adorned with adorable fluffy white flower heads. Unpretentious and hardy, this plant requires only abundant moisture.
- Mannik large Variegat (great manna, glyceria, water manna).
Spectacular, refined and elegant ornamental grass for the garden up to 1 m tall, perennial grass with a thick stem and flat narrow green leaves with longitudinal cream stripes. The foliage appears with a pink tint, ripening to green and yellow with variegation.
Glyceria is unpretentious, hardy, loves swampy soil and an abundance of water, suitable for wet areas of the garden and for decorating ponds. Mannik water is aggressive and grows rapidly.
