the RHS today and get 12 months for the price of 9, Other common names It may turn out these are identical, just sepa-rate names offered by two differ-ent nurseries. 1-1.5 metres, Ultimate spread Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Pixie Fountain’-3L £ 8.99. Divide every few years to retain vigour. Part of my winter reading was Lawrie Metcalf’s The Cultivation of New Zealand Native Grasses. Most interesting post Kate with lots of practical information – and some lovely photos of sun on your grasses. Stipa gigantea comes in a range of sizes, from the shortest ‘Pixie’ to the tallest ‘Gold Fontaene’, last year … Mia Ingolia/Courtesy photo The longevity of grasses versus their seeding or growth habits fascinates me, I can see that some are much lower maintenance for being truly perennial than others. Both are dwarf selections of the species that form clumps of slender, arching, matte green leaves and tall, shimmering, airy panicles of golden flower heads in spring and summer. This semi-evergreen species makes a stately, stand-alone specimen with narrow, arching foliage and shimmering gold panicles that reach 8 feet tall. Stipa gigantea 'Little Giant' and Stipa gigantea 'Pixie'. Stipa viridula. * Use plants as walkable groundcovers — not just standard lawn grass, but a variety of tough, low-growing plants can tolerate being walked on. Great post Kate. If they’re looking thatchy I might lightly rake them through either using a spring tine rake or by running my hands through from the base of the plant. Jun 9, 2020 - Explore Penny's Pixie Planters's board "Front yard plants", followed by 219 people on Pinterest. Uncinia uncinata. Helleborus argutifolius 'Pacific Frost' Helleborus foetidus. Re anemanthele : even within the UK certain grasses perform differently so require different maintenance, especially at the juvenile stages – I got away with a lot more growing them in London than I do here on the (winter-wet) Welsh borders. alba, Wordless Wednesday : Clematis ‘Etoile Violette’, NGS Open Day June 2017 and Plans for 2018, Wordless Wednesday : A Bit of Light Relief, Wordless Wednesday : Fascinating Fasciation, ‘Lamprothyrsus hieronymi!’ A Grassy Magic Spell for NGS Day, Wordless Wednesday : Clematis ‘Pangbourne Pink’, Wordless Wednesday : Paeonia x lemoinei ‘Souvenir de Maxime Cornu’, Wordless Wednesday : Raindrops on a Favourite Rose, Wordless Wednesday : A Tiny Teatime Treat, Wordless Wednesday : Iris sibirica ‘Tropic Night’, Wordless Wednesday : Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Rustica Rubra’. Anemanthele is a stunning subject for mass planting but as a short-lived New Zealand native the key is a steady supply of new plants. It sounds as though you take a keen interest in grasses too. I am at once tempted to replace the three under-performing plants with seedlings of the best one – they all self-sow with abandon around my garden – and reluctant to replace mature plants that have taken years to reach that point with open-pollinated seedlings that are not guaranteed to perform like their better parent. How interesting, Kate. Carex solandri is a wonderful, pot friendly, dead easy evergreen sedge, it would look stunning in the back row of your spring bulb theatre (;. The Corsican hellebore (Helleborus argutifolius) features brilliant chartreuse flowers. Good tip, thanks Kate. ‘Aureovariegatus’ Ammophila arenaria Arrhenatherum bulbosum ‘Variegatum’ Arundo donax Bouteloua gracilis Briza media Briza media ‘Limouzi’ Briza triloba Carex acutiformis Carex Bronzita Carex buch. Have a lovely trip to Beth Chatto’s garden and nursery – both great for grasses, of course! ( Log Out /  Numero esemplari /m² : 3. They look fantastic, but except for one of the clumps – which also happens to be the largest – the others have a fairly large number of flowering culms that seem to die at different stages before they are fully grown, and the ‘aborted’ seed heads on those culms look dry instead of coppery, and the culms break easily and look like it’s already mid-winter. Once the centre of the plant looks this thatchy it’s time to replace them with seedlings coming into their third year. What an evocative description, Pauline your Stipas sound very happy in your garden. Wordless Wednesday : Tulip ‘Orange Emperor’. Search by plant name, key attributes or both to find plant details and a list of Typha angustifolia Narrowleaf Cattail. The veteran group above planted around the acer are due for retirement next year – April 2016 was their last haircut. Our last winter was the longest and wettest in a long time – perhaps 10 years – and for the first time I felt that a mere combing of my Anemanthele lessoniana clumps wouldn’t be enough, so I cut them back in early spring. Stipa gigantea 'Pixie' Stipa gigantea 'Variegata' Stipa grandis Stipa ichu Stipa joannis Stipa krylovii Stipa lessingiana Stipa mollis Stipa neomexicana Stipa offneri Stipa papposa Stipa patens Stipa pekinense Stipa pennata Stipa pulcherrima Stipa pulcherrima 'Windfeder' Stipa ramosissima Stipa robusta Stipa spartea Of my seven recently moved Anemanthele interestingly it is the older ones that I cut back that are settling in the best. Esposizione : sole. Out of stock. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Until then they’re top-heavy and, although stipa doesn’t like to be overcrowded, they work well from a young age with early summer flowering bulbs like alliums. Stipa gigantea. Also, it may depend on which form the seed came from…. Five years ago a 0.5 litre division struggled to establish, this is what it looks like today. I haven’t tried it, but I’m told mature clumps divide well. Stipa can be evergreen or deciduous, mostly perennial grasses with arching, folded or rolled, linear leaves and narrow panicles of often long-awned spikelets in summer and autumn, Details This is very useful again, Kate. 5.00. Add to basket; Stipa gigantea 3L £ 8.99. Pixie Fountain Tufted Hair Grass. Meanwhile, I shall enjoy the small group of zero maintainance grasses planted in the sun trap of the yard. In stock. Symphyotrichum laeve 'Arcturus' 5.00. Since 2012 the original three at the front of the border did so well that I added a further five in 2013. Vidēji agri ziedoÅ¡a peonija. May 19, 2016 - Add romance and hazy color to your life–and create instant curb appeal–by planting perennials grasses in a front yard, alongside a path, or as a mini meado suppliers. Stipa gigantea 'Gold Fontaene' £7.50. I shall definitely have to get a dog comb or two, especially after having just been recommended them for cleaning paintbrushes! Chilly weather enhances the foxy-red tints in its foliage. Also suitable for containers. Mon – Fri | 9am – 5pm, Join the RHS today and support our charity. Saxifraga 'Red Pixie' 5.00. Even so, I’d hesitate to risk one of these tightly bunched mature specimens. Plants form a clump of grey-green foliage at the base, bearing very tall, arching stems of tan flower spikes through the summer months, lasting well into winter. Stipa gigantea Pixie Stipa pennata Stipa gigantea Pixie Strobilanthes penstemenoides Stylophorum bed 1 Sycopsis sinensis Symphytum Langthorn's Pink Syringa sp 38 Y.Pk Syringa sp Y. Pk 36 Tagetes lemonii Tecoma capensis Teucrium flavum Teucrium lucidrys Thalictrum Hewitt's Double Thelypteris decursiva-pinnata Perhaps it’s the third of the evergreens that’s trickiest to grow well. We're a UK charity established to share the best in gardening. Ett stiligt gräs är Stipa gigantea, jättefjädergräs. I’m so glad that it is doing well in the garden here, we now have two, but who knows, maybe I’ll have to add another! In either extreme flowering seems to be restricted. Grow in medium to light, moderately fertile soil in full sun. Recently I was given Crug Farm’s cultivar M.n.’Shikola’, this and Pan Global Plants one are meant to be hardier. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest news about our new products and promo campaigns. Thank you Cathy, that’s a great idea – I shall try a dog comb on the paintbrushes. Imagine hundreds drifting down a sunny slope …. Stipa gigantea comes in a range of sizes, from the shortest ‘Pixie’ to the tallest ‘Gold Fontaene’, last year Neil Lucas introduced ‘Goldilocks’ which is of medium height. Thanks so much for this inspiring and helpful post. Poaceae, Genus See ornamental grasses cultivation, Propagation Thank you Annette, I’m pleased you like the look of the less often seen C.rubra. I can’t get the link to work, search C. Rubra Coosheen should yield images. NEWSLETTER SIGN UP. Wordless Wednesday : Curiouser and Curiouser …. In 1998 Metcalf warned that in optimum conditions NZ landscapers should be aware of anemanthele’s propensity to become a self-seeding nuisance, the gossamer sprays of infloresences are loaded with fine seed held on arching wiry stems intent on being tracked by hoof or boot rather than being windborne. Deschampsia ‘Pixie Fountain’ Dianthus carthusianorum: Foeniculum vulgare ‘Purpureum’ Geranium ‘Tiny Monster’ Geum coccineum ‘Koi’ Hemerocallis dumortieri: Osmanthus xburkwoodii: Salvia ‘Miss Elly’ Stipa gigantea ‘Gold Fontaene’ Thalictrum‘Elin’ Feature shrub: … 0.5-1 metres, Time to ultimate height Uncinia uncinata. ( Log Out /  City & Courtyard Gardens Patio & Container Plants Architectural, Pruning Remove dead foliage and old flowered stems in spring, Diseases times, Need more criteria? Virtually all of the features of the old searches are still available and in addition we have added several new features to create a more comprehensive and user friendly search experience. golden oats 'Pixie', Family Stipa tenuifolia Mexican Feather Grass. See what Phil Sayers (MusakuiPins) has discovered on Pinterest, the world's biggest collection of ideas. Re Stipa : if all four plants enjoy the same site/conditions but one of them shows predominantly stalled flowering stems, do you think that you’re noticing the difference between variable seed grown plants? Pixie Spanish oats (Stipa gigantea “Pixie”) has dense tufts of dark-green leaves with long-stemmed golden heads like giant oats. Scabiosa 'Pink Perpetual Flowering' 5.00. Drained soil in sun. It will be exciting to see how they vary. Brian Skeys also grows grasses, among them beautiful Chionochloa rubra. Sesleria autumnalis : A New Grass for the Little Meadow? Izmērs 3/5. 1-mrt-2018 - Bekijk het bord "Stipa" van Niels op Pinterest. Typha latifolia. Fifty of them are planted a metre apart formimg a low hedge beside the drive which then curves back in a loop around the Acer griseum. There’s not much to do, the flowering spikes fall by December here, which only leaves snipping out the woody stubs of last year’s stems in early April. So glad I put them all together having seen your photo of the mature ones en masse. 222879/SC038262, If you enter just a plant name, you will see results from the old RHS Plant Finder and Selector databases. Planted in three waves, they don’t need replacing all in one go. yep, just found their photo stream on flickr…looking fab, pity I didn’t know about it when I lived there or maybe it’s a fairly new garden. Met een tikje geluk zie je, als oplettende voorbijganger, dit geliefde dier langs een boomstam omhoog rennen, of in een snel tempo voorbij spurten naar een volgende schuilplaats. Lovely photographs too. To curtail wayward seedlings I deadhead anemanthele, preferably on a damp day before the seed sets. I did write a post on Himalyan Fairy Grass as it’s also known – the star plant is in my neighbour’s garden. Saxifraga 'Winifred Bevington' 5.00. Shame about the stipa, shade and heavy soil does seem to put them off. Stipa viridula. Excellent for ordinary use in appropriate conditions. In stock. If you’ve space between plants, Iris sibirica work nicely as a long term, early flowering combination – both are usually on sale on the same time of year. Prolonged cold and wet spring weather can also put off them off. Genus Stipa can be evergreen or deciduous, mostly perennial grasses with arching, folded or rolled, linear leaves and narrow panicles of often long-awned spikelets in summer and autumn Details 'Pixie' is a tufted, evergreen grass, producing a dense mound of tough, narrow leaves and open, branched panicles of golden, oat-like flowers to 1.2m in summer and autumn Divided into 3 groups these lists, linked below, are maintained by a team of RHS staff and are reviewed annually. Flower borders and beds Low Maintenance Unfortunately it is not hardy in my garden, so it is one I loved and lost. Orientating them to catch the sun pays off, tall airy flowered grasses look amazing backlit, here by the mellow evening sun in high summer. Looks and sounds very interesting. If so, would you have any idea what the cause might be? Join the RHS today and support our charitable work, Keep track of your plants with reminders & care tips – all to help you grow successfully, For the latest on RHS Shows in 2020 and 2021, read more, RHS members get free access to RHS Gardens, Free entry to RHS members at selected times », Reduced prices on RHS Garden courses and workshops, Our Garden Centres and online shops are packed with unique and thoughtful gifts and decorations to make your Christmas sparkle, General enquiries Stipa gigantea. Chionochloa rubra next.. Good to hear the more mature ones have transplanted well, there’s been quite a bit of frost here over the last few weeks – just looking at magnolias in the garden today, lots of blooms have been burnt. Unlike their deciduous cousins, which once established can be cut right down to the ground in late winter/early spring, evergreen grasses grow throughout the seasons so they won’t thank you for treating them in the same way. From all I’ve read, S. gigantea does well in poor soil and is extremely drought tolerant, so it would seem to me that the ones in leaner, drier soil should actually do better. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Helleborus argutifolius. Join I’ll try again with Stipa gigantea and I might even find space for five of them. They’ve put on about four inches of new growth already. Can reflower in autumn. These plants will have a lot more details displayed including an image. Wordless Wednesday : Soaking up the spring sunshine, Chionochloa : A Case of Mistaken Identity, Wordless Wednesday : Welcome signs of Spring, Pennisetum alopecuroides : a late winter friend, Eragrostis curvula : African weeping love grass, Tall purple moor-grass : Molinia caerulea subsp. Out of stock. Scabiosa ochroleuca 'Moon Dance' 5.00. Thank you, Dan, I’m glad you like it. Stipa leaves are leathery, for me gloves are a must. Pixie Spanish oats (Stipa gigantea ‘Pixie’) has dense tufts of dark-green leaves with long-stemmed golden heads like giant oats. Terreno: asciutto, con ottimo drenaggio invernale. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Until then they’re top-heavy and, although stipa doesn’t like to be overcrowded, they work well from a young age with early summer flowering bulbs like alliums. Kristina Uher Janus Gardens Inc. They are: This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects. This year the younger and more vigorous row beside the more sheltered cedar path were cut back by 50%. It is useful to know which ones to cut back and when. Stingrie ziedkāti labi notur pildÄ«tos ziedus. Wordless Wednesday : Stipa gigantea Going for Gold, Wordless Wednesday : Glowing in the Twilight, Nearly Wordless Wednesday : Ladies in Lavender, Wordless Wednesday : Nasturtiums and Summer Showers, NGS Day June 26th 2016 : Gates Open Today from 1-5.30pm, Wordless Wednesday : The Common Spotted Orchid, Wordless Wednesday : Siberian Iris ‘Silver Edge’. Much earlier in the year, planted a metre apart on centre allows room for clumps of Iris sibirica ‘Tropic Nights’ to be squeezed in between them, both flower early in May so any tidying of the stipa has to be done sooner rather than later in the spring. Miscanthus nepalensis is a favourite of mine, I grow a few. Thank you Kate for another interesting and informative post. "This Best in Show garden may at first glance look like an excavated Roman ruin; large column sculptures which are repeated through the design. Pennisetum macrourum : perfect picked, dried or simply left on the plant …. I also site them where either the mower or passing cars will check their spread. All I know about grasses could be written on a single blade, so I found this fascinating. Typha latifolia. Rather more imposing than the species. Då får den samspela och åstadkomma rörelse med sina fjäderlätta ax. A New Look for the National Garden Scheme! Pixie Spanish oats (Stipa gigantea “Pixie”) has dense tufts of dark-green leaves with long-stemmed golden heads like giant oats. Typha angustifolia. Stipa tenuissima. Bowles and The Riddle of the Pheasant’s Tail Grass, Hakonechloa macra : Japanese Forest Grass. I have four mature Stipa gigantea, all of which I started from seed four or five years ago. Good luck with yours. I think it would work well on tough leaved carex too, I have some pot grown green leaved Frosted Curls that are looking very sorry for themselves right now. Sanbaz . All of which suggests that sourcing good-sized plants from a specialist nursery is a sound investment. 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