Why do I get a wild bug up my butt to do serious gardening when the weather is most inhospitable? Last time it was like 100 degrees outside, this time it was raining. *shrug*
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Oh! Also, I think I will slooooowly be filling my garden in with more clumps of ornamental grass, now that I know how to plant it and what to buy. That clump I bought in June is doing really well, and I found out it is Shenandoah switch grass (which is very hardy and will continue to grow) so now I'm encouraged to add more...probably next year when I have a better choice of varieties.
Eventually I'll have a fuller garden space, but I want to do it carefully so my plants remain distinct from each other. Before, I had a mad jumble of ground cover with black-eyed susans and all sorts of stuff grown together in confusion...it got weedy and overgrown 'cause I never could tell which were "good" plants and which were weeds.
I love the idea of an orderly composition of different foliage of different heights and textures, placed so that the whole thing looks like a pleasing flower arrangement. I think grasses with different kinds of colorful plumes at different heights will be the ~perfect~ thing. ^_^ Plus some flowers seasonally to add splashes of bright yellow, and rocks to separate the arrangements and keep things nice and neat. But yeah...grasses! Love 'em!
Eventually I'll have a fuller garden space, but I want to do it carefully so my plants remain distinct from each other. Before, I had a mad jumble of ground cover with black-eyed susans and all sorts of stuff grown together in confusion...it got weedy and overgrown 'cause I never could tell which were "good" plants and which were weeds.
I love the idea of an orderly composition of different foliage of different heights and textures, placed so that the whole thing looks like a pleasing flower arrangement. I think grasses with different kinds of colorful plumes at different heights will be the ~perfect~ thing. ^_^ Plus some flowers seasonally to add splashes of bright yellow, and rocks to separate the arrangements and keep things nice and neat. But yeah...grasses! Love 'em!
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