Winning Combinations

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Winning Combinations with Ornamental Grasses
Mary Hockenberry Meyer
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Use grasses in combination with other
perennials.
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Miscanthus, little bluestem and feather reedgrass
with perovskia
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Fine textured grasses can be too uniform.
Coarse texture provides relief for our eyes.
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Grasses with evergreens Asian look good for
screens and background
silver spike grass, Spodiopogon sibiricus
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Arrhenatherum elatius bulbosum 'Variegatum
bulbous oatgrass
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variegated grass white --- with red or rose
colored perennials
Phalaris arundinacea Feeseys Form
RHIZOMES
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variegated Miscanthus with red, pink or
rose colored flowers
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Miscanthus sinensis Variegatus
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Hakone grass Hakonechloa macra Aureola
Albo-striata with Phlox divaricata, woodland
phlox
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Hakone grass with yellow and reds other hot
colors.
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Miscanthus Strictus and Zebrinus with
yellow flowers
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grey-blues soothing blending colors to highlight
other colors
soft white not screaming white Miscanthus
sinensis Morning Light marginally hardy in
zone 4
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Festuca 'Elijah Blue' blue fescue
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Helictotrichon sempervirens, blue oatgrass,
looks great with pastel colors and burgundy
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Melinis nerviglumis Pink Crystals ANNUAL
may self-seed blue-grey foliage
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blue and pink blue lyme grass and roses
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Invasive rhizomes are best controlled with
cement or pavement.
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Calamagrostis xacutiflora 'Overdam' Overdam
reedgrass and Avalanche (inset)
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Calamagrostis xacutiflora 'Karl
Foerster' feather reedgrass with roses
Champlain
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Calamagrostis xacutiflora 'Karl
Foerster' feather reedgrass with
Asiatic lilies
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Calamagrostis brachytricha vase-shaped fall
blooming reedgrass
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Calamagrostis xacutiflora 'Karl
Foerster' Schizachyrium scoparium little
bluestem with Purple Dome aster
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Schizachyrium little bluestem
MinnBlue A Blue Heaven TM
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Miscanthus should only be planted in managed
landscapes where it can be
watched for self-seeding. httpwww.horticulture.c
oafes.umn.edu/miscanthus
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Miscanthus Autumn Light
Susurration wind through plants, whisper audio
interest
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Miscanthus Giganteus
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Miscanthus sacchariflorus, RHIZOMES
Route 30 east of Ames, Iowa
Hardin County, Rt 175, Iowa
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Molinia 'Windspiel' tall moorgrass
Molinia caerulea 'Variegata' variegated
moorgrass
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Panicum virgatum
switchgrass
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Panicum virgatumDallas Blues
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Panicum virgatum Cloud 9, huge plant
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Panicum virgatum Shenandoah
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Indian grass Sorghastrum nutans Sioux
Blue and Indian Steel
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Prairie dropseed lawn, Sporobolus heterolepis.
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monocromatic colors pink
Pennisetum setaceum crimson fountain
grass ANNUAL, some seed
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monochromatic colors purple crimson
fountaingrass Pennisetum setaceum Rubrum
tender annual, no seed
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monocromatic colors purple crimson
fountaingrass Pennisetum setaceum Rubrum
tender annual, no seed
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Pennisetum Purple Majesty
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monocromatic colors white
Pennisetum villosum feathertop
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feathertop with alyssum and nicotiana
Carex Snowline with firefly impatiens
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monocromatic colors yellow Hakonechloa macra
Aureola Albo-striata with Coreopsis
Moonbeam
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Carex muskingumemsis Oehme
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Chasmanthium latifolium, riveroats, Northern
seaoats
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monocramatic colors
bronze little bluestem, feather reedgrass,
and sedum
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Melica Red Spires self-seeds
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annual maintenance recommended spring
cutback April
Division optional early spring to increase
plants
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Nasella tenuissima, Mexican feathergrass