Varieties

Alboaurea
Carex Everest
Carex grayii
Elijah Blue
Fireworks
Fisher's Form
Glauca
Gold Bar
Goldringer
Hordeum jubatum
Intense Blue
Japanese Blood Grass
Milk Chocolate
Milium Effusum Aureum
Nigrescens
Prairie Fire
Splended Star
Unicine Rubra
Unknown

Grasses
Ornamental grasses were probably the first plant that we really began to specialise in. Annette (AF Garden Solutions) built the first grasses bed, utilising rocks that had been dug up elsewhere and using a power washer on them to get them as white as possible. After a short time we soon exhausted the space allocated for the grasses and so we decided to double the size of the bed which was duly done by Malcolm & Kath (my brother and his wife).

We lost three grasses over the 2011/12 Winter and are not sure why – it may just be that as this was the first complete bed to be done we were too inexperienced to know exactly what we were buying and probably didn't really look at what was suitable for our soil.

2013
Over the 2012/13 Winter we lost Lagorus ovatus. Below, however, are the ones which we currently have.

 

 

Carex 'Everest'
Marple Garden Centre
May 2013 – £7.99

Although this was marked up at £7.99 it was actually free of charge as a special offer which Marple Garden Centre had on – spend £40 or more and select a plant from a choice of approximately 8, all marked up at £7.99, free of charge!

 



 

Milium 'Effusum Aureum'
Marple Garden Centre
May 2013 – £7.99

 

 

 


Hakonechloa macra Alboaurea

 

Hakonechloa macra 'Alboaurea'Bents Garden Centre
£8.99 – 8th June, 2011

This hardy Japanese grass brings elegance to the garden with its brightly coloured foliage

 




Carex grayiiCarex grayii

Carex grayii
Eversley Nursery

Sputnik grass – forms a mound of dark green foliage with attractive spiky seed heads.

 


Carex morrowii Fisher's Form

 

 

Carex morrowii 'Fisher's Form'

 

 

 



Libertia goldfinger

 

 

Libertia goldfinger

Bents Garden Centre
£12.99 – 8th June, 2011

 

 



Festuca glauca Intense Blue

 

Festuca glauca 'Intense Blue'
Bents Garden Centre
£19.99 – 8th June, 2011

It is fully hard and produces its pinicles in the spring. It keeps its intense blue colour throughout the year.

 



Imperata cylindrica Red Baron Japanese blood grass

 

 

Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron'
Japanese blood grass
Oak Tree Nursery

Foliage gradually turning red. Height 40cm.

 

 

Carex flagelliferra milk chocolate

 

 

Carex flagelliferra 'Milk Chocolate'
Eversley Nursery

Everygreen milk chocolate brown grass.

 

 

Ophiotegum pladicarus Nigrescens

 

 

Ophiotegum pladicarus 'Nigrescens'

 

 

 


Carex testacea Prairie Fire

 

 

Carex testacea 'Prairie Fire'Eversley Nursery

Orange sedge, a fine mould of dark green suffused with orange foliage. Orange colour intensifying in autumn/winter.

 

 

Cordeteria selloama Splended Star

 

 

Cordateria selloama 'Splended Star'

 

 

 


Ornamental grass Ornamental grass

Unknown - awaiting identification!

 

 

 

Hordeum jubatum Hordeum jubatum

Hordeum jubatum
Daisy Roots

Wavy clumps of whispy squirrel tail like flower heads with gorgeous pinky tint to them. 45cm

 



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