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Post by Tig on Oct 4, 2007 19:30:08 GMT
Couldn't find an existing thread, and there are loads worthy of a photo. Not everyones cup of tea I know, but this looks at its best at the moment   |
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Post by Plocket on Oct 5, 2007 11:35:27 GMT
Not my cup of tea but it looks lovely in that photo |
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Post by Tig on Dec 29, 2007 13:20:39 GMT
And now - birds love it for nesting material - it will be stripped bare in a month or so ;D  This looked quite attractive - bit of extra colour  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2007 15:56:26 GMT
i have plans to add grasses to my garden next year.
i like the smaller varieties though.
like quaking grass. i think thats what its called.
and one that has fluffy bunny type tails on it!!!
wish i could remember the latin names!!! LOL
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Post by Dutchy on Dec 29, 2007 18:42:16 GMT
Funny that I want the opposite. Even though I love that bunny tailed one.
Big weaving curtains of them.
I have Miscanthus Sinensis but I want one impressive yet fragile one for MssK's.
Still not found one that tickles the appetite though.
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Post by Tig on Dec 29, 2007 19:42:10 GMT
i have plans to add grasses to my garden next year. i like the smaller varieties though. like quaking grass. i think thats what its called. and one that has fluffy bunny type tails on it!!! wish i could remember the latin names!!! LOL Lagurus Ovatus (Hares Tail) I have some seed rbj  Tig |
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Post by Shrubrose on Feb 19, 2008 16:28:04 GMT
Mine's not been stripped Tig! Bird's seem to leave it alone  Thought it looked nice against the blue of the sky though (and it's not one my blurry ones, for a change! ;D)  |
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Post by beanie on Feb 19, 2008 17:12:41 GMT
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Post by Tig on May 7, 2008 9:47:38 GMT
This is another self-seeded invader - sooo much pollen (I already have a blocked nose and streaming eyes :  x Tig  |
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Post by Weeterrier on May 7, 2008 19:32:41 GMT
I have Carex pendula too. Yes it self-seeds, yes it is a brute, but it grows anywhere, from the driest dust to in a pond. And the flowers are very elegant.
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Post by Tig on May 7, 2008 19:48:19 GMT
Thanks WT - I didn't know what it was called  I only let it grow in the 'difficult' places x Tig |
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Post by Shrubrose on May 8, 2008 16:45:22 GMT
That's a beauty Tig! Flowers look like bottle brushes |
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Post by Amo on May 10, 2008 20:08:34 GMT
I have a few awkward patches and I have sort out the carex pendula as it's such an iron clad plant!! I have plenty now though!!!   ;D ;D |
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Post by Ruthie on Jul 31, 2008 20:05:02 GMT
Thought I'd bring this one back to the top with Stipa tenuissima and Stipa arundinacea, star performers in my poor soil.   |
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Post by Tig on Jul 31, 2008 22:46:02 GMT
Thanks SR - defo got the first one and I think the second ;D Nice to know what they are!
x Tig
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Post by Amo on Aug 16, 2008 20:15:43 GMT
And you have Hakonechloa under your arundinacea?! That is my star plant of the moment. I have the green and variagated now. So strokable especially in a good pot!! I found something in a few pots I thought were dead the other day and found the lable as carex comans bronze that I had sown from seed. Now safely planted out |
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Post by Ruthie on Aug 16, 2008 20:21:37 GMT
Yes Amo and the Hakonechloa will have to be moved before it is completely swamped by this beast!! I KNOW how big these things grow but I STILL plant things too close together |
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Post by Tig on Sept 10, 2008 19:40:32 GMT
I love the movement these provide, and the seeds look like dancing fairies blowing in the wind  |
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Post by Ruthie on Sept 10, 2008 20:12:30 GMT
Beautiful Tig. What are they?
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Post by Tig on Sept 10, 2008 22:22:53 GMT
Miscanthus sinensis flamingo SR - one off my 'wanted list' that I had for my birthday back in July |
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Post by Dutchy on Sept 11, 2008 7:06:11 GMT
Lovely me thinks.
Grasses are on the up it seems.
Finally people are daring to include them in their borders. Even I have stood back a while but now have some. They look fab around Allium. Big purple blobs with fluffy companions.
I also have a new one with very stiff upright flowers that have a brown purple sheen.
I interplanted with Epimedium. Next spring the grass will be litlle clumbs of spiky green and the epimedium will flower with yellow dainty flowers to be followed with heartshaped leaves and then hopefully the spiky flowers of the grass will sit above those in autumn.
In my head it is great, now I have to wait and see what it does for real ;D
I must get the names. There were no labels. I think both are Molinia ... or not... ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Sept 13, 2008 17:30:24 GMT
I luuuurve stipa tenuisima too....I have one in a pot and today, when the sun was shining (Gosh) it was the prettiest thing in the garden imo...(apart from me of course ;D )
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Post by Tig on Sept 13, 2008 18:48:23 GMT
It think it has a 'new' name Cheery - Nassella Tenuissima  I want a stipa gigantica (or some seeds ;D) |
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Post by Dutchy on Sept 17, 2008 6:51:08 GMT
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Post by Amo on Sept 17, 2008 7:31:46 GMT
I have the Stipa gigantea, but it was only in this year and so no seeds yet though you would have been more than welcome to some Tigs.
I also have a miscanthus giganteus which I hope will bloom soon. My little ones have only just started coming out though and this one is again a baby at only 7ft high so far.
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Post by Dutchy on Oct 5, 2008 18:01:39 GMT
Beanie sorry I forgot to thank you for that link on Stipa g. It is a lovely one indeed and I will keep an eye out for it at the GC.
Cheers
Dutchy
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Post by Dutchy on Oct 5, 2008 18:08:36 GMT
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Post by Ladygardener on Oct 7, 2008 19:02:04 GMT
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Post by Tig on Oct 7, 2008 22:51:18 GMT
Your daughter shares your passion for gardening then lng Miscanthus, but which one? Looks darker than my 'flamingo'! x Tig |
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Post by Ladygardener on Oct 8, 2008 5:13:21 GMT
Not at all sure which one Tig. Son in law is actually the one who gets the credit for the garden but with 2 little ones it's difficult for him to get the time. ;D |
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Thought it looked nice against the blue of the sky though (and it's not one my blurry ones, for a change! ;D)
x Tig
;D ;D
I want a stipa gigantica (or some seeds ;D)
