Japanese Garden Ornamental Grass
It has arching lance-shaped bright-green leaves about 10 inches long.
Japanese garden ornamental grass. Sep 27 2017 - Explore Judith Hourigans board Japanese Grasses followed by 147 people on Pinterest. It does well in containers as well. Nyalla is bluer and a little taller while Lime Tuff is perkier and forms a neat lime-green mound to 50cm.
A good option for waterside gardens. Ornamental grasses offer subtle beauty and multi-seasonal interest even when theres not much else going on in the garden. With its rosy red-tinged foliage ornamental Japanese bloodgrass adds a vivid touch of color to a landscape.
The flowers of the Japanese Silver Grass stand out among other grass flowers. Recreate the charm of a natural meadow by planting ornamental grasses with perennials like eschscholzia Californian poppy yarrow purple echinacea and Japanese wind anemones. Grown for their structure texture reliability and virtually carefree nature the uses for ornamental grasses are many.
Golden Japanese forest grass Hakonechloa macra Aureola is a beautiful variegated ornamental grass and slow-growing perennial and is one of the rare grasses that thrive in shady conditions. Grasses complement natural materials like stone bricks and concrete and as such look great in water-wise gravel gardens. Award-winner Porcupine Grass Strictus is a very distinctive ornamental grass with its variegated foliage displaying unusual horizontal soft yellow rings along the gracefully arching leaves until it turns to pale brown in the fall.
Albo Striata is striped with white. Pink muhly grass is also known as sweetgrass gulf muhlygrass mist grass hairawn muhly and the botanical name Muhlenbergia capillaris. Photo by Janet Loughrey.
Grows best in moist soils needing no special care once established. Native ornamental grasses have been used extensively in this garden by Peter Fudge. Japanese forest grass Hakonechloa macra is a gorgeous shade-loving grass that will gently rustle as it.