Grass - Warm Season

The various grasses are fast becoming the most wonderful way to add texture to your landscape. The taller ones like the Miscanthus varieties and fountain grasses add background and texture to your smaller shrubs, perennials, bulbs and annuals, as well as acting as borders and hedges to mark property boundaries.

Acorus Minimus Grass Acorus Minimus Grass is one of the cutest of the sweet flag varieties in that this dwarf golden form makes a slowly spreading tuft of tiny, golden, evergreen grass-like foliage.	Acorus Ogon Grass Grass Acorus gramineus Ogon is a neat looking winner of a sweet flag grass whose bright gold foliage accented with green stripes shimmers in the afternoon sun.	Black Mondo Grass Black Mondo Grass, Ophiopogon planiscapus Nigrescens, is an Intriguing collector's plant. Black Mondo Grass features black (really a dark purple) 1/4" wide leaves, with bell-shaped, pale lavender flowers in summer.
Grass Pennisetum.Hameln Hameln Grass is our personal favorite. Hameln Grass' compact growth habit and finely textured foliage make this one of the most popular warm season Pennisetum cultivars. Hameln Grass' are usually grown for their flower clusters (plumes) that appear i	Karley Rose Grass Karley Rose Grass, Pennisetum orientale, has dark green foliage topped with long-blooming (June till frost) rose lavender plumes. I knew Karley Rose Grass was another of a long list of great plants that I had to add to the garden.	Little Bluestem Grass Little Bluestem grass, schizachyrium scoparium, is one of the more interesting warm season grasses. An unusual grass, the Little Bluestem will grow in full sun to partially shaded areas and once established is drought tolerant.
Miscanthus Adagio Grass Miscanthus Adagio Grass is an early flowering beauty with reddish/white pendulous plumes that move in the slightest breeze. Miscanthus Adagio Grass is the durable addition for the summer or winter garden.	Miscanthus Gracillimus Grass Miscanthus Gracillimus Grass is perhaps the oldest cultivar of miscanthus sinensis and remains very popular to this day.	Miscanthus Morning Light Grass Miscanthus Morning Light Grass is one of the newer Miscanthus. Miscanthus Morning Light Grass displays a fine textured dense clumping grass that glows in the morning light. The Miscanthus Morning Light Grass is named because of the thin white...
Miscanthus Purpurascens Grass Miscanthus Purpurascens Grass (CLOSEOUT)is a beautiful ornamental grass that will add interesting seasonal color changes in your landscape. Imagine Miscanthus Purpurascens Grass beginning with bright green foliage that turns to a reddish.....	Pink Muhly Grass Pink Muhly Grass, Muhlenbergia capillaris, is a must have for the low maintenance garden. Pink Muhly Grass is an absolute show stopping source of late-season color. When summer is winding down and all the your beautiful blooms from summers annuals...	Prairie Dropseed Grass Prairie Dropseed Grass, Sporobolus heterolepis, looks as good in dormancy as it does during the growing season. Prairie Dropseed Grass changes from true green in the spring and summer to a spectacular yellow-orange in the fall. Prairie Dropseed...

In the spring you’ll have the wistful grace of the grasses swaying with the slightest breeze visually drawing your eyes to the landscape. The early summer show of decorative flowering seed heads on grasses add surprise and beauty from morning sun and early dews to late evening sunsets and the reflection of the fading light. Fall brings interesting color tones as the green begins to fade with early frosts, and the true colors of nature expose themselves before the stark barreness of winter. Winter is welcomed by the grasses with the approach of snow and frost. Wispy strands at times ice over, and create a visual contrast with the snow, but also remind us of the approach of the next glorious spring.

So, whether using grasses as accents to supply texture and form, or using in a rock garden or border, when you’re coming home with Greenwood you’ll find the grasses to be the crowning touch to the palettes that we call our four season landscapes.

Drying Ornamental Grass Plumes

One of the great benefits of ornamental grasses is their plumes. You can dry the plumes and bring these beauties right inside you home! The plumes will last for years.

Grasses are extremely easy to dry. Cut the plumes to the desired length just as the plumes are fresh and the foliage has not yet started to turn brown for the winter. Bundle together the stalks. You can use 'quick-ties' to secure the bundles. Hang upside down in the garage to dry. Most will even maintain a lot of their foliage color. For example, Miscanthus sinensis 'Strictus' will continue to sport the color of its horizontal bands.

If you’re into flower arranging, grass plumes are a great addition! You can have your own abundant supply of these beauties by planning ahead now and planting grasses with the plumes that you like.

Coming home with Greenwood gets better and better.