![]() ![]() If you include both types of ornamental grasses, you’ll have fresh new grasses in the spring as well as mature grasses and grass flowers in the summer and fall.īriza media, Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’, Calamagrostis canadensis, Chasmanthium latifolium, Deschampsia caespitosa, Deschampsia flexuosa, Elymus spp., All Fescues, Helictotrichon sempervirens, Molinia, Nasella tenuissima, Sesleria spp., Stipa spp.Īndropogon spp, Bouteloua spp, Calamagrostis brachytricha, Eragrostis spp, Hakonechloa spp, Miscanthus spp, Muhlenbergia spp, Panicum spp, Pennisetum spp. If the warm-season grasses are just sitting there doing nothing, your matrix planting may look empty and not make much sense until summer. ![]() So warm season grasses are late starters - especially in some of the cool springs we’ve had recently. Warm-season grasses don’t even break dormancy until the ground temperature is above 65, and thrive when temperatures are between 80 - 95 degrees F. They’re happy again in late fall, but in the heat of the summer they tend to go dormant and may even brown-out - something to consider as far as placement within the planted border. They start to grow in early spring and may remain semi-evergreen over the winter. Cool season grasses thrive when temperatures are between 60 - 75 degrees F. To be more successful, your grass garden should have a mixture of cool-season and warm-season ornamental grasses. ![]()
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