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This is a funky little plant. This is actually not even a grass but
since it's used in the same environment as grass as centerpieces,
because it is taller and used in the middle of a planter, we thought we'd throw it in here too.
It's called
Ribbon Bush. It almost looks like a portrait of
a thornless cactus. It's black with little
arms coming off the side. It kind of grows in
all directions. Just an interesting little plan. Really glossy look to it.
this one here I would say more half-day sun, half-day shade.
Most grasses as a general rule are for full sun
but this one in a half-day sun, half-day shade would be better.
Down here, one of the straightest grasses you can get,
Juncus 'Blue Arrows'
What can I say? If you want just a
perfect straight look in the middle of a planter
and this would definitely be your choice. Also can be used in a little
water feature, a water bowl. They do like
wet conditions as well. Just an all around
interesting plant in the way you use them in many different settings.
This grass here is commonly called Pheasant Tail Grass.
It has a coloring habit to it
that starts off mainly green in the spring
and as it grows older and ages throughout the season, then it'll start to get little
rusty orangey blotches developing in the foliage.
And then they'llslowly extend and then overall,
by the time it's done, it has that kind of orange glow to it.
So really nice to get that different color in your planter other than just
plain green from those grasses.
Okay, well this is another one here that actually isn't botanically a grass but
we do sell it in our
basket stuffer section. It's actually
Trailin Bamboo. It can be called Agrostis.
Just an awesome plant
to put in a taller type planter because it will trail down
up off to four feet in one season.
And this would be small little blades that sort of
lock into each other and you'll just have a perfect habit coming down the edge of your planter.
So we try to put this up on a little pot here to show you the effect of
how it gorws in that trailing habit.
This next grass here is actually a type of Cyperus. Now we have mentioned
Cyperus in a
few other segments, in our water feature
segment and so on but this one here done from seed. So it's
quite affordable. We sell it in the baskets in the grass section.
It gives you a real tropical look
to your yard and the main difference between this type of
Cyperus and a lot of the others is
the large clusters of seeds that
are part of the umbrella. So this is commonly called either
Wild Spike or Umbrella Plant. Just
really neat the way it has sort of interspersed between the
larger blades on the head. This grass below me here is
Stipa(Pony Tails) and as you can see
with its soft creeping habit reminds me
of a tail of a pony. It is by far the softest
grass there is. It doesn't always work great as a centerpiece though because it has that
sort of
softer draping habit so I like kind of using it more on the edge a
planter
or just looks beautiful on its own like this.
Over here, Milium
Flashlight. This would be a very nice chartreuse
type of grass. Contrasting to some of the burgundy ones we
talked about earlier. Nothing beats this for that
lime green color in a planter. Also I'd recommend with this one,
protecting a little bit from full sun.
It does sometimes burn on the edges if it's given too much
direct sun in sort of July and so on but give it a shot.
It's a really nice grass. And isn't this
a neat one? Becoming very popular
every year. We're getting more and more questions of, "Oh do you have that
spirally corkscrew kind of thing?" and
it is a type of grass, is a Juncus as well. So like the
Blue Arrows that we talked about earlier and the real straight one.
Well this one has a spiral to it. It's called a Juncus Twister
And like the other juncuses, it can also go
in have braved wet feet in a water feature.
It can be used in many different situations that way.
It's a great interesting specimen. And
last but not least here, we have
a Carex and it's called Prairie Fire.
And just consistently has sort of that
orangy look to it all season long, a
golden orange look.
Very sturdy, doesn't ever flop.
A little bit of a coarse feel to it but
just again, a really nice example of a variety of basket stuffer grasses.