Garden Questionnaire: Ornamental Grass Garden

What’s especially interesting about this garden that visitors would like to know?

Variations in size, color, golds blues greens and all different variations of color, variegations of white and yellow, so you can design a grass garden that is attractive. A lot grasses retain interest through the wintertime and are mainstays in a winter garden because of their plumes. Versatile, you can get them in all sizes, 3 or 4 inches to 20 feet high.

Are there any special concepts or strategies shaping this garden?

Like landscaping with any plant you have to make sure you don’t hide plants. Cost a little less than hostas, most are competitively priced with other plants.

Are there future plans for this garden?

Gradually replace plants lost. Add more plants that do well in this zone.

Is there anything else you’d like people to know about this garden?

It’s an attractive all season garden. Great for children to hide and chase each other. As far as numbers of varieties, we’re developing genus gardens that group varieties of genus plants together.

Script for the Guide by Cell phone project for THE ORNAMENTAL GRASSES GARDEN - Written and recorded by Peter Longley on Prompt 39#

"Our Ornamental Grasses Garden is a fun garden of tall grasses designed to look like a fountain in the fall and winter, with tall plumes waving in the breeze. While they are growing up in the summer, the grasses give the garden a jungle feeling. It is a popular place to play for couples and children alike, having a series of paths rather like a maze. You never know what is going to be around the next corner. To give color and interest during the summer, a number of bright annuals are planted among the grasses. Every year in the early spring, the grasses are cut right back to the ground revealing the pattern of the paths before they become hidden in the maze."