I appreciat your videos so much. Every time so informative and beautifully done. Your hard work comes through and youve helped me sooooooooo much. ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆♡♡♡♡♡
My husband always loved evergreens and grasses and I started out only loving perennials, but now I 100% see their value and embrace both grasses and evergreens. They’re invaluable in the landscape. And since deer don’t eat grasses, I’m now a super fan! I have several cultivars of big blue stem that have the most gorgeous blue hue in the growing season and a striking burgundy fall color.
I used to think of grasses as just being the same as leaving a patch of lawned grass to grow long. I’m a fairly recent convert…. I love the look and sound of them wafting in the wind, it’s enchanting when you get their placement *right* - which is very important!
My husband loves grasses, so I'm working some in to the garden. Unfortunately, our hakonachloa reverted from variegated light green to plain green and now looks like a weed. I'll try another. We have clumps of a massive wispy grass he loves. I love the ones with interesting tops, like a little firework. Thanks for the tour.
I loved my tall grasses. My favourite by the front door only went to delightful curled seed heads in the late fall 🇨🇦 The clump did hollow out in the centre after a few year but not in an ugly way, and my cat enjoyed that hollow for summer naps. They ARE difficult and dusty to cut down in the spring.
Since i added a lot of different grasses to my sunny and shady borders, they look very much „airy“, lighter and brighter. They soften my stone wall and add structure during winter. i ❤ grasses.
What a wonderful garden! When I set out to make my cottage garden, I found out soon, that it wouldn't look nice for about half the year, if I didn't put a structure beneath it of evergreens. Some of those evergreens were grasses in different heights and colors. I also got some that you cut down completely, but would make a lovely combination with the many flowering plants around. It worked. I had the nicest garden in my village of 1300 people.
Ornamental grasses are a nightmare to plant in my garden. It's a community garden, with some perennial areas. Sadly, even though I take care of plantations, I cannot do all of the work. And since it's a community garden, we grow them all from seed we don't have the budget to buy big specimens from a nursery. So for ornamental grasses, we plant them small, from a 7 cm pot. And when other members of the garden will weed a border, they way too often just pull out the ornamental grasses, thinking they're weeds... Most of them are dumb founded when I tell them that yes, in borders we use grasses now and they look beautiful. For them it should just be flowers. The first year, I put a stick to mark the position of the plant, but when you plant dozens of flowers and grasses, the second year people remove the sticks so it's not too ugly, or they degrade coz they're bambou sticks or branches. It might work out for some lime colored grasses, like some sedges, or bronze colored ones. But for grasses like panicum or sporobolum or calamagrostis, it is REALLY difficult to keep them, and it's a punch in the gut when you know the grass is slow growing and has been pulled out after 2 or 3 years in the ground by some careless person... Some grasses like miscanthus will grow tall fast and may not be weeded out, but I hate miscanthus in european gardens, it just looks so off, it's not at its place at all, especially in our garden which is mostly european plants, and a few americans that don't look out of place. But miscanthus really does...
The problem with grasses is that they they get battered down by rain and wind. Even the low-growing ones end up totally flattened. My garden here in very wet Wales looks a complete mess, so I've made the decision to get rid of them all.
Sizi şans eseri buldum. Kuraklık çok büyük bir sorun. Bahçenizde değer verdiğiniz pekçok bitki benim yaşadığım yerde kır çiçeği olarak yetişen doğal türler. Bana hemen her videoda yaptığım hataları, doğruları gösterdiniz. İngiliz bahçesine sahip değilim, akdeniz bahçesi oluşturmaya çalışıyorum. Sizin sayenizde güllerimin yerini değiştirerek başladım. Gerçek boyutlarına ulaştılar. Çok canlılar. Dekoratif otları biliyordum fakat bahçemde istemediğime karar vermiştim. Değişen iklim koşulları yüzünden yavaş yavaş otların gerekli olduğuna karar verdim. Son siparişlerimi iki hafta önce ektim. Çok güzeller. Vetiverler birinci yılını tamamladılar. Pembe çimleri, stipa pony tailleri, carex evergoldları bahçeye dağıttım. Enson bu iklime uyumlu olacağını düşündüğüm Rus Adaçaylarını ektim. Bahçem iyi gidiyor. Amaryllis, nergis, belladonnaları bahçeye farklı noktalara taşıdım. Çok güzel bir mimoza, erguvan, kiraz, incir, kayısı, erik, kızılcık, zeytin ağaçları ve çok büyük bir meşe ağacımız var. Çok farklı bitkiler kullanıyorum ama daha bilinçli tercih ediyorum. Size çok teşekkür ederim.
Another fab video Alexandra!! I have to admit to having not been fond of ornamental grasses but this video has changed my mind. I'll be investing in a Stima gigantica and a japanese hackl... (I'll check the spelling 😜) Thank you both, Paul and you do a great double act!
Beautiful video once again, thank you. I've planted many herbs that have gotten away from us with reseeding everywhere. Which now makes me a bit afraid to plant anything. Should I be wary of grasses reseeding throughout the yard an neighborhood? Do you have any grassy tips for a zone 6 wild garden?
I like grasses had sea grass in a circle bed edge in took over like Bamboo was pretty but had to dig 4 feet to get root ball out Would only put it in a large pot. It's popular at the beach where I live . Over used there I went with cottage style garden.
Great advice on grasses! I’m slowly coming around to adding them to my garden to provide texture & movement. And now, it seems there are SO many varieties to choose from!
Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass is great for 'any' garden. But, not for 'every' garden. It's just too much of a good thing in this country 🇨🇦. It started to lose it's appeal when McDonalds started to landscape their parking lots with it together with Stella d’Oro Daylilies.
I agree, ornamental grasses look beautiful BUT they might not be so great if you have pets. Each year at the time that glasses make seed, I have to be extremely vigilant in checking my Ragdoll cat's coat. I have removed seeds that managed to put down roots and were burying themselves into my cat's skin. I found one the other week which was right in the corner of his eye. They also get between his toes. It can be serious. A search of the net will reveal many cases.
I have reduced my penstemon grasses considerably over the last two years bc they are troublesome to weed around. Also, since most varieties flop over, they become tripping hazards while trying to walk around them to weed the garden. The nursery will tell you it is low maintenance, but I didn't find this to be the case... the 25 degree freezes destroyed many of my varieties several winters back. Best to admire this in the yards of my neighbors I think. LOL.
Only started adding grasses to our relatively small garden a few years ago. They’re glorious, but I make sure to divide them in spring to avoid them taking over. But yes, fantastic plants.
Yes, some tend to do that. But nothing you can't manage with a little shovel in your hand. But if those grasses are hard to reach, it would be easier to replace them. Then again, when one loves to do some gardening, and it is manageable, it makes for a lovely excuse to be out :)
I appreciat your videos so much. Every time so informative and beautifully done. Your hard work comes through and youve helped me sooooooooo much. ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆♡♡♡♡♡
This channel is better than most things on TV. Production quality is outstanding and consistently so.
I've been reducing grasses in my garden due to my age. I have trouble cutting down the grasses in Spring. Getting old is such a bummer!
Is there no friend or family member that could help you? There are types that don’t require any cutting back per se, aren’t there? 🤔
What are you replacing them with?
Your choice of places and people to interview are wonderful. this is an excellent video. Thank you
What a gorgeous garden! Wow!
I love those grasses! Thank you for the tour. ❤Niw looking at my garden I’m a little depressed!😂😂😂
My husband always loved evergreens and grasses and I started out only loving perennials, but now I 100% see their value and embrace both grasses and evergreens. They’re invaluable in the landscape. And since deer don’t eat grasses, I’m now a super fan! I have several cultivars of big blue stem that have the most gorgeous blue hue in the growing season and a striking burgundy fall color.
That is another benefit - and those colours sound gorgeous.
I used to think of grasses as just being the same as leaving a patch of lawned grass to grow long.
I’m a fairly recent convert….
I love the look and sound of them wafting in the wind, it’s enchanting when you get their placement *right* - which is very important!
My husband loves grasses, so I'm working some in to the garden. Unfortunately, our hakonachloa reverted from variegated light green to plain green and now looks like a weed. I'll try another. We have clumps of a massive wispy grass he loves. I love the ones with interesting tops, like a little firework. Thanks for the tour.
I loved my tall grasses. My favourite by the front door only went to delightful curled seed heads in the late fall 🇨🇦
The clump did hollow out in the centre after a few year but not in an ugly way, and my cat enjoyed that hollow for summer naps.
They ARE difficult and dusty to cut down in the spring.
Since i added a lot of different grasses to my sunny and shady borders, they look very much „airy“, lighter and brighter. They soften my stone wall and add structure during winter. i ❤ grasses.
I can imagine - sounds beautiful
I love the way grasses look but I stopped because the gophers love them here. One took hold but weeds grew in between and I couldn’t pull them.
What a wonderful garden!
When I set out to make my cottage garden, I found out soon, that it wouldn't look nice for about half the year, if I didn't put a structure beneath it of evergreens. Some of those evergreens were grasses in different heights and colors. I also got some that you cut down completely, but would make a lovely combination with the many flowering plants around. It worked. I had the nicest garden in my village of 1300 people.
That does sound beautiful!
Ornamental grasses are a nightmare to plant in my garden. It's a community garden, with some perennial areas. Sadly, even though I take care of plantations, I cannot do all of the work. And since it's a community garden, we grow them all from seed we don't have the budget to buy big specimens from a nursery. So for ornamental grasses, we plant them small, from a 7 cm pot. And when other members of the garden will weed a border, they way too often just pull out the ornamental grasses, thinking they're weeds... Most of them are dumb founded when I tell them that yes, in borders we use grasses now and they look beautiful. For them it should just be flowers. The first year, I put a stick to mark the position of the plant, but when you plant dozens of flowers and grasses, the second year people remove the sticks so it's not too ugly, or they degrade coz they're bambou sticks or branches. It might work out for some lime colored grasses, like some sedges, or bronze colored ones. But for grasses like panicum or sporobolum or calamagrostis, it is REALLY difficult to keep them, and it's a punch in the gut when you know the grass is slow growing and has been pulled out after 2 or 3 years in the ground by some careless person... Some grasses like miscanthus will grow tall fast and may not be weeded out, but I hate miscanthus in european gardens, it just looks so off, it's not at its place at all, especially in our garden which is mostly european plants, and a few americans that don't look out of place. But miscanthus really does...
I enjoy majestic grasses, but I’ve only planted Karl foerster, because I don’t have strong sun. That transparent grass was beautiful.
The problem with grasses is that they they get battered down by rain and wind. Even the low-growing ones end up totally flattened. My garden here in very wet Wales looks a complete mess, so I've made the decision to get rid of them all.
I been using grasses in my borders for over 15 years. They look great with all the perennial flowers. Thanks for some more tips!
Thank you for thee good ideas
Another benefit of ornamental grasses I've found is that the deer don't seem to bother them. Another informative video, Alexandra. 💗
Thank you. And great point about the deer
This video was just in time, I am in the process of adding grasses! Tfs!
Glad to hear it!
Sizi şans eseri buldum. Kuraklık çok büyük bir sorun. Bahçenizde değer verdiğiniz pekçok bitki benim yaşadığım yerde kır çiçeği olarak yetişen doğal türler. Bana hemen her videoda yaptığım hataları, doğruları gösterdiniz. İngiliz bahçesine sahip değilim, akdeniz bahçesi oluşturmaya çalışıyorum. Sizin sayenizde güllerimin yerini değiştirerek başladım. Gerçek boyutlarına ulaştılar. Çok canlılar. Dekoratif otları biliyordum fakat bahçemde istemediğime karar vermiştim. Değişen iklim koşulları yüzünden yavaş yavaş otların gerekli olduğuna karar verdim. Son siparişlerimi iki hafta önce ektim. Çok güzeller. Vetiverler birinci yılını tamamladılar. Pembe çimleri, stipa pony tailleri, carex evergoldları bahçeye dağıttım. Enson bu iklime uyumlu olacağını düşündüğüm Rus Adaçaylarını ektim. Bahçem iyi gidiyor. Amaryllis, nergis, belladonnaları bahçeye farklı noktalara taşıdım. Çok güzel bir mimoza, erguvan, kiraz, incir, kayısı, erik, kızılcık, zeytin ağaçları ve çok büyük bir meşe ağacımız var. Çok farklı bitkiler kullanıyorum ama daha bilinçli tercih ediyorum. Size çok teşekkür ederim.
Lovely displays, Alexandra! 🇨🇦
Thank you!
Another fab video Alexandra!! I have to admit to having not been fond of ornamental grasses but this video has changed my mind. I'll be investing in a Stima gigantica and a japanese hackl... (I'll check the spelling 😜) Thank you both, Paul and you do a great double act!
Beautiful video once again, thank you. I've planted many herbs that have gotten away from us with reseeding everywhere. Which now makes me a bit afraid to plant anything. Should I be wary of grasses reseeding throughout the yard an neighborhood? Do you have any grassy tips for a zone 6 wild garden?
I adore grasses. I enjoyed learning several new varieties here. As well, I gained some angles on design that hadn't occurred to me previously.
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I like grasses had sea grass in a circle bed edge in took over like Bamboo was pretty but had to dig 4 feet to get root ball out
Would only put it in a large pot.
It's popular at the beach where I live . Over used there I went with cottage style garden.
Great advice on grasses! I’m slowly coming around to adding them to my garden to provide texture & movement. And now, it seems there are SO many varieties to choose from!
Karl Foerster Feather Reed Grass is great for 'any' garden. But, not for 'every' garden. It's just too much of a good thing in this country 🇨🇦. It started to lose it's appeal when McDonalds started to landscape their parking lots with it together with Stella d’Oro Daylilies.
I agree, ornamental grasses look beautiful BUT they might not be so great if you have pets. Each year at the time that glasses make seed, I have to be extremely vigilant in checking my Ragdoll cat's coat. I have removed seeds that managed to put down roots and were burying themselves into my cat's skin. I found one the other week which was right in the corner of his eye. They also get between his toes. It can be serious. A search of the net will reveal many cases.
I have reduced my penstemon grasses considerably over the last two years bc they are troublesome to weed around. Also, since most varieties flop over, they become tripping hazards while trying to walk around them to weed the garden. The nursery will tell you it is low maintenance, but I didn't find this to be the case... the 25 degree freezes destroyed many of my varieties several winters back. Best to admire this in the yards of my neighbors I think. LOL.
Very educational video as Grasses are tricky .
Wonder garden and very useful video.
Is there any particular grass you could recommend especially for part shade?
Thanks
Love the experts that you bring to us! Great info, especially about not cutting back carex.
Piet Oudolf uses a lot of grasses to give his gardens a soft, misty look.
They're all so beautiful 💚
Only started adding grasses to our relatively small garden a few years ago. They’re glorious, but I make sure to divide them in spring to avoid them taking over. But yes, fantastic plants.
Good point!
An excellent Grasses 101, thanks so much Alexandra. 👐
Thank you! 😊
Love the grasses. They do seem to overtake my border though. Maybe I get the wrong ones.
Yes, some tend to do that. But nothing you can't manage with a little shovel in your hand. But if those grasses are hard to reach, it would be easier to replace them. Then again, when one loves to do some gardening, and it is manageable, it makes for a lovely excuse to be out :)
Interesting - I have the opposite problem, I find it hard to get some grasses established. Not sure what the answer is in either case!