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Ornamental Grasses
Warm season Grasses – grow in summer - flower after mid-summer
Grasses that flower after mid-summer are warm-season grasses, because they wait until the warmth of summer before starting into growth, then grow rapidly and come into flower between mid and late summer. The flowers turn to seed heads and remain showy for many months. They are normally planted where they can fill the ground once spring flowering bulbs or perennials are past their best.
Recommended time to plant: S = SPRING, LS = LATE SPRING AFTER FROST, F = FALL
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Grass Acorus Ogon
NEW! - Acorus Gramineus Ogon Here is a neat looking winner of a grass whose bright gold foliage accented with green stripes shimmers in the afternoon sun. a maintenance free grass, grows well sun or shade.
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Grass Miscanthus Adagio
Adagio Maiden Grass - Miscanthus sinensis Adagio - An early flowering beauty with reddish/white pendulous plumes that move in the slightest breeze. Adagio, is the durable addition for the summer to winter garden.
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Grass Miscanthus Gracillimus
Miscanthus ‘Gracillimus’ is perhaps the oldest cultivar of miscanthus sinensis and remains very popular to this day. This large warm season grass is a favorite at Greenwood for its fine narrow foliage and gracefully round form.
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Grass Miscanthus Purpurascens
Miscanthus purpurascens If you want great fall color in your landscape, then this is the one for you.
Imagine this warm season grass beginning with bright green foliage that turns to a reddish color late summer, then burnt orange colors in the fall
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Grass Miscanthus s. Sarabande
Grass Miscanthus sinensis Sarabande - Sarabande is a great variation of Miscanthus that is sure to please. The narrow olive colored leaves will accent well with lighter colored plants and the reddish-brown blooms will appear earlier than others
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Grass Panicum 'Northwind'
Grass Panicum 'Northwind' Cheryl and I have three of these beauties in our garden. We chose them as a recommendation from our good friend and world renowned nurseryman, Don Shadow. We were looking for a special clumping grass that would hold its shap
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Grass Panicum Dallas Blues
Grass Dallas Blues - Panicum virgatum Dallas Blues PP#11202 - Considered by many to be among the finest of our native ornamental grasses! ‘Dallas Blues’ has the same great powder blue foliage as some of the best Panicums
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Grass Panicum v. Shenandoah
Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah' - This warm season grass can easily be mistaken for Japanese Blood grass (Imperata cylindrica 'Rubra'). The leaf tips turn red by mid summer.
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Grass Panicum v. Squaw
Grass Panicum virgatum ‘Squaw’ - This cascading grass is full of year round color. Green summer foliage gives way to deep burgundy in the fall months. Burgundy seed heads make an Autumn showing as well, really adding some character
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Grass Panicum v.Heavy Metal
Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal' - We are extremely fortunate to be able to offer this well known Panicum through Greenwood this season. Some of the taller Switch grasses can become floppy, but 'Heavy Metal' is shorter (40 to 50”)
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Grass Pennisetum o. Karley Rose
Karley Rose - Pennisetum orientale - If you’re a plants person like I am, you will absolutely adore this warm season show-stopper. Dark green foliage topped with long-blooming (June till frost), rose lavender plumes are what drew my eyes to it.
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Grass Pennisetum.Hameln
Pennisetum Hameln - At Greenwood, the ‘Hameln’ is our personal favorite. Its compact growth habit and finely textured foliage make this one of the most popular Pennisetum cultivars.
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Grass Phalaris a. Strawberries and Cream
Phalaris arundinacea, Strawberries and Cream - This great grass has color all season long. The white stripes on the foliage have a touch of pink lending to the name of this Variegated Ribbon Grass.
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Grass Pink Muhly
Pink Muhly - Muhlenbergia capillaris – A North American Native is a must have for the low maintenance garden. When summer is winding down and all the your beautiful blooms from summers annuals and perennials are fading
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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.
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.
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