Gardening

Architectural Grasses How to use architectural grasses in your garden. One of my absolute favourite architectural grasses is Stipa gigantea or Giant feather Grass. Stipa gigantea is a striking evergreen grass, with slender arching deep green foliage from which […]

Gardening with Miscanthus. Miscanthus, also known as maiden grass, Japanese Silvergrass or Chinese Silvergrass, are clump-forming ornamental grasses that are well worth growing.  They have some of the best flowers of all the ornamental grasses, […]

Agapanthus. I couldn’t write about strappy leaved plants without including Agapanthus.  At this time of year, the mountain is bursting with them. The ten species in this southern African genus belong to the onion family […]

Using strappy leaved plants in your garden. Strappy leafed plants are plants which have a grass like growth habit, but are not grasses.  Their leaves are long green straps, like grass, which may be very […]

Gardening with Grasses The best native grasses for your garden. When we think about native grasses Lomandras or Matt Rush comes to mind. The common form, L. hystrix is a very large and not very […]

How to use grasses in your garden. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species the Grasses collectively known as Poaceae are the fifth-largest plant family, with grasslands accounting for 40% of the land area of Earth.  Grasses have […]