I have also grown Hakonechloa macra “Aureola” successfully before so wouldn’t mind giving it a go again when we get all our building completed. Stipa arundinacea; Soil – Moist soil, … Comb out dead or winter damaged leaves in early spring. 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. This is a semi evergreen grass, close to freezing it will die back in winter and will need to be cut back to the ground in winter. The genus Anemanthele … Sometimes it is necessary to ‘cut back’ your plants for the good of the plants and to insure safe packing and arrival of your order. Great tips – thank you. I was whooping in agreement when I read his authoritative cultivation notes : anemanthele should never be cut right back to ground level. The leaf colour varies from green to golden-yellow to reddish and the reddish fluf 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? I am scaling back ‘Tanika’ – composting about 80% of it. Now a question. A. lessoniana - A. lessoniana is a clump-forming, semi-evergreen to evergreen grass, with arching, mid-green leaves, flushed red or orange in autumn, and airy, arching panicles of reddish-brown flower spikelets in late summer. Habit. 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. The weather gave me and you I trust, the opportunity to cut back all the perennials, prune the roses and lightly weed over the borders, frankly incredible, compared to this time last year, when we were under the white stuff thanks to the beast. Last year this group flowered rather inconspicuously for the first time alongside the opium poppies and red valerian. Now I need to get the succession going and replace the oldest each year. Cut back every 2 years for a fresh look. Feathery green-purple flower heads emerge in summer. It will self-seed around lightly but any excess seedlings are easy to remove. Sometimes it is necessary to ‘cut back’ your plants for the good of the plants and to insure safe packing and arrival of your order. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Anemanthele lessoniana - Pheasant's Tail Grass (syn. A peaceful spot : sitting, staring and drinking tea. 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. Amenanthele lessoniana comes from New Zealand, where it is found mainly on the eastern side of North and South Islands and is rare and declining. All of which suggests that sourcing good-sized plants from a specialist nursery is a sound investment. Hi. Bloom Size: Unknown - Tell us. I have heard that there’s an RHS trial of Stipa gigantea in the pipeline, there have been a number of new introductions like ‘Goldilocks’ and ‘Pixie’, I wonder if this will come up? Pennisetum macrourum : perfect picked, dried or simply left on the plant …. Evergreen grasses such as Stipa gigantea , Cortaderia (pampas grass) and Anemanthele lessoniana need more gentle treatment, however. With some evergreens like this Anemanthele lessoniana (also known as Stipa arundinacea), they can get relatively strawy on top after a few seasons and can be cut back, but this must be done when the plant is … Pheasant's tail grass. This grass is comparatively short lived but older plants can be replaced by self sown seedlings. 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’. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Details: Height: 150 cm: Width: 150 cm: Growth per Annum: Fast: Climate: Hardy: Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade, Full Shade: Soil: Well Drained: Native gossomer grass widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant. 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. Details: Height: 150 cm: Width: 150 cm: Growth per Annum: Fast: Climate: Hardy: Sun: Full Sun, Part Shade, Full Shade: Soil: Well Drained: Native gossomer grass widely cultivated for use as an attractive ornamental garden plant. This year the younger and more vigorous row beside the more sheltered cedar path were cut back by 50%. Around 300 spent tyres, partly covered with soil and topped with bark were used to make this raft of a path that is flanked with bright-green Hakonechloa, Silene fimbriata, pheasant grass (Anemanthele lessoniana), Geranium pratense and Sanguisorba minor with Sambucus nigra f.porphyrophylla ‘Eva’ in the background.. … It also does well in heavy clay soils, unlike many other ornamental grasses. To 30″ tall and a little wider the army green arching foliage takes on dramatic orange and red tints if given just a little stress. In either extreme flowering seems to be restricted. Height: 100cm (39"). Anemanthele lessoniana is not the only grass that presents a management puzzle. Unlike many grasses Chionochloa rubra doesn’t divide happily, let alone romp away. Thanks to a top-tip from him I’ve recently discovered an inspirational planting of this easy-going grass in Devon. All I know about grasses could be written on a single blade, so I found this fascinating. 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. Propagation. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! 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. 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. The largest tussock – the one with very few ‘stalled’ culms – is growing in soil with more organic matter than the other three, so probably richer and less dry in summer. ( Log Out /  Either cut the whole thing back to 6-10” tall using your handheld hedging shears, starting from the very outside and cutting thin sections of grass at a time until you are done. Being evergreen, it should not be cut down. Anemanthele lessoniana, This perennial grass forms rounded tufted clumps with upright to arching long flat-linear pointed leaves. This plant has never fully recovered, and has never matched it's former brillance. So far, seed hasn’t germinated. C.rubra would look fabulous spilling down your slope! Anemanthele lessoniana is easily grown in average, medium to dry soils, in full sun or shade. Other details: Unknown - Tell us. This airy evergreen grass is spectacular when ruffled by the breeze, adding movement to borders and containers. I have cut scruffy 3-5 year olds down to ground level, rarely do I enjoy the success you describe in your garden. 2010-02-15. Alas, I don’t have an extensive sheltered, sunny slope for such an ambitious planting here, a late summer sortee to Buckland Monachorum will have to do. It forms a large clump of slender, evergreen foliage, which emerges green, but becomes streaked with yellow, orange and red with age, resulting in a fiery, eye-catching display in … I love the pink haze of the pheasant tail seed heads. Five would look amazing! Looks and sounds very interesting. This plant has never fully recovered, and has never matched it's former brillance. Three of these plants are now in their twelfth year, remarkably they’re still looking good, I’d expect them to be getting a little bald and nobbly in the centre. Evergreen grasses : to cut or not to cut? I haven’t tried it, but I’m told mature clumps divide well. 500 N. Sequim Ave. Sequim, WA 98382 Anemanthele Anemanthele. Beautiful images! ... Anemanthele Lessoniana. Wordless Wednesday : Tulip ‘Orange Emperor’. Flowers are good for cutting. This grass is comparatively short lived but older plants can be replaced by self sown seedlings. arundinacea, Autumn musings : Lofty cultivars of Miscanthus sinensis, Filming Barn House garden for BBC Gardeners’ World 2016. At that time, cut back bloodgrass to the ground or simply give it a haircut to remove winter damage. 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. Thatchy strands blend in, as do spent flowering stems. Nigel Grange. In late spring I can see that only a few of them seem to stall at a certain point as you describe – probably in response to light/heat/seed production. Propagate by seed in containers in a cold frame in spring or by division from mid-spring to early summer. Can be cut back in late autumn. Arching, … Seedlings take two years to grow a good root system, only then do they make sturdy plants for spacing in the border. 6) Stipa arundinacea (syn Anemathele lessoniana) is an evergreen grass which doesn’t really need cutting back every year as the old leaves get hidden by new ones each season. Propagate by seed in containers in a cold frame in spring or by division from mid-spring to early summer. ( Log Out /  The second method is to ignore them until they are unattractive and oversized, and … 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. Although it tolerates conditions in high light, it is best cultivated with some measure of shade … Plants with tall flowering stems and lots of foliage may lose a great deal of water in transit and cutting back helps reduce this stress. Summary Information. Bloom Time: Mid Summer. “A garden isn’t meant to be useful. ... For bulkier orders, we’ll be back in touch to confirm a freight price. They stay this colour right through the winter. If so, would you have any idea what the cause might be? Stipa arundinacea ) Description In summer this ornamental evergreen grass is streaked orange-brown and it then turns to orange brown all over in winter, when there may be less to catch your eye in the garden. They were perfect until then! The foliage is around 2 - 3 ft high with the flower rising 1ft above them. Habit. 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! The Garden House images are worth checking out for an idea of the full size at maturity 4’x3′ (especially if thinking about pot growing). Anemanthele lessoniana. H 60cm. Back to Plant List. Have a lovely trip to Beth Chatto’s garden and nursery – both great for grasses, of course! ... For bulkier orders, we’ll be back in touch to confirm a freight price. ANEMANTHELE lessoniana - Pheasant grass - Woottens Plant Nursery Herbaceous perennial plant specialists in Suffolk offering mail order plants. This is very useful again, Kate. Good tip, thanks Kate. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In late summer wispy stems of small, purple flowers are produced. So glad I put them all together having seen your photo of the mature ones en masse. PLEASE NOTE: At certain times during the year, it is necessary for us to cut back our … This is a fast growing clump forming grass that grows well in full sun to part shade, preferring a well drained position. A. lessoniana - A. lessoniana is a clump-forming, semi-evergreen to evergreen grass, with arching, mid-green leaves, flushed red or orange in autumn, and airy, arching panicles of reddish-brown flower spikelets in late summer. Positive: On Jul 27, 2007, saya from Heerlen, Netherlands (Zone 8b) wrote: Formerly named and still known as Stipa arundinacea. Or, bundle up the grass with twine so it stays together in a column of foliage, enlist a friend to hold it up (for goodness’ sake don’t trim their ankles! ... anemanthele should never be cut right back to ground level. Anemanthele lessoniana is a fantastic ornamental grass that provides year-round colour, movement and structure in a variety of garden situations. Yes, I had considered natural variability, as well as soil & moisture (not exposure, because they are all in full sun). I’ve also planted S. gigantea in different places with varying success. So cut them back hard now, before the new green shoots show so there is no risk of cutting them back as well. Flowers are good for drying and preserving. Anemanthele lessoniana is also known as 'Pheasant's Tail Grass' with its long seed heads rising above the foliage in mid summer and sometimes refered to as Gossamer Grass. If it needs a gentle hand it should be cut back to no lower than 15cm (6in). Imagine hundreds drifting down a sunny slope …. Anemanthele lessoniana - Pheasant's Tail Grass (syn. Complementary colour The ColorGrass Collection lets you grow and sell the broadest range of ornamental grasses from … It sounds as though you take a keen interest in grasses too. Wordless Wednesday : Coming in to land …. Anemanthele lessoniana (Wind Grass) Previous Next. Anemanthele lessoniana (Pheasant's tail grass) A tuft forming clump of very fine leaves that are mid-green early in the year, but turn orange-bronze from autumn. 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