Beautify Your Garden
With Ornamental Grass
Planting and growing ornamental grass in your yard
and garden is a wonderful low maintenance way to add beauty with
color, texture, and interesting focal points. Ornamental grass tends
to grow quite high in many cases, so this adds an extra dimension of
vertical interest in your yard and garden. And while some ornamental
grasses can grow as tall as 20 feet, they don't usually need to be
trimmed or cut in the same way regular yard grass or bushes do.
Planting ornamental grass in bare spots of your yard can create a
brand new look in the area. The grass can be used for naturalizing
multiple areas of your yard, or it can be added to flower beds and
gardens too. Some types of ornamental grass can be invasive though,
and some might grow tall enough to block your flowers from receiving
enough sunlight. So choose the ornamental grasses you plant in
flower beds wisely.
Unlike regular grass, ornamental grass has little disease or pest
concerns to worry about. And again, it doesn't need to be trimmed.
In fact, trimming ornamental grass too often will actually weaken
it, and you can kill it by mowing or clipping too often.
Like other types of plants and flowers, there are a wide variety of
ornamental grasses which can be planted and grown. Some will
create just small clumps of color similar to the way a groundcover
does, while others will create large focal points in your yard
similar to the way trees and bushes do.
Some ornamental grasses produce wonderful colors to accent your yard
with too. The ornamental grass commonly known as Rubra usually
displays a deep, dark red color mixed with a very deep green color
that can be quite striking. Red switch grass is another favorite for
the fall colors it produces.
Aside from producing wonderful colors and textures in your yard,
many ornamental grasses also produce unusual and beautiful seed pods. These can be left on the plants to further enhance their beauty
if you'd like, plus they'll draw more birds to your yard too. Some
can even be picked and dried for use in decorating the inside of
your home too.
Also like most flowers and decorative plants, some ornamental
grasses will produce flowers. And some will grow best in shade,
while others prefer sun.
Choosing which ornamental grasses to plant in your yard and gardens
might be the most difficult part of the process, but you'll find
that some grow as annuals so it's easy to experiment with those
first if you're not familiar with growing them.
