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Looking for Low Maintenance Fall Color?

by Fern on September 24, 2008

in Fall Gardening

If you’re looking for fall color, but don’t have tons of time to primp and preen thanks to the season’s shortening days, try some ornamental grasses. You don’t need to spend tons of time trying to put together the “perfect” pot, just plop the grass into an available pot, and away you go!

Blue Oat Grass

Helictotrichon sempervirens Zones 4-9

Frost Grass

Spodiopogon sibericus Zones 3 – 8

Red Switch Grass

Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’ Zones 5 – 9

Japanese Silver Grass ‘Gold Bar’

Miscanthus sinensis Zones 5-8

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louise September 24, 2008 at 2:05 pm

Fern-I found the fiber optic grass worked really well for me too but they are annual. It’s a much smaller type of ornamental grass perfect for small space.

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Fern September 24, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Louise — I almost bought fiber optic grass this summer, but then decided to wait. When I went back to buy it later, it was gone!

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jen September 24, 2008 at 7:50 pm

Oh, I loved my blue oat grass! With the cooler weather is shone in the dark days.
Jen

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jen September 24, 2008 at 7:51 pm

Can’t spell check, my own comments!

With the cooler weather IT shone in the dark days.

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Fern September 24, 2008 at 10:25 pm

Jen — I love Blue Oat Grass on a crisp morning with sunlight filtering through it and a layer of dew twinkling…

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