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Grasses

Grasses

Mass plantings of grasses and strappy foliage plants add a great natural feel to garden spaces, and are a effective textural element to combine with perennial flowers and shrubs in our gardens. Grasses work well in both traditional gardens and contemporary settings, and are generally easy to grow and low maintenance. The key to success is choosing the right variety for your planting project as the plants all vary in size, growing requirements vigour and appearance.  Below we have listed a range of species from Japan, America, New Zealand, as well as some of our own native species.

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  • Light requirement: full sun
  • Height range: medium (21 - 80cm)
  • Frost tolerance: extremely good

Astelia banksii

An attractive silver-leafed species with recurved leaves, lower growing than the more vertical A. chathamica.

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Austrostipa elegantissima

A brilliant low grass with outstanding flowers and seedheads, suitable for massed foreground plantings in landscape design work or in clusters amongst other perennials. A slender plant so plant closely at 25cm for best results. Not self seeding in our trial stockbeds. 

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Austrostipa stipoides

Native grass found mostly around coastal areas in Tasmania and Victoria, this is our local form from the southern Channel area. It forms a lovely tussock in the garden and is less prone to die-back than some of the poa species.

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Deschampsia caespitosa

Evergreen mounding grass with delightful seedheads in autumn, will not self seed like many native grasses do. Lovely with sedums and miscanthus.

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Miscanthus 'Eileen Quinn'

Lowest growing of all the miscanthus, at around knee high, a very versatile and useful foreground filler that wont seed, and looks great with sedums, echinacea, salvia and rudbeckia. Winter foliage has pretty rusty pink tones. Give it nice soil, being a smaller one its fast growing as the big ones.

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Panicum virgatum 'Rubrum'

Upright grass colouring well in autumn. Favoured by contemporary designers for winter colour and structure.

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Poa gunnii

Alpine tussock found in Tasmanian alpine areas. It does surprisingly well in most garden conditions providing it is well drained.

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Stipa ichu

A beautiful grass from Peru where it grows on elevated dry plateau on gravelly ground. In Australia it tends to flower autumn to winter, and prefers to dry off in summer, although in mild areas it seems to flower continuously if dead headed. Cut older plants back to half after flowering once growth begins to show signs of drying off.  The white flowers...

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