Specialty Gardening: Do you use grasses in your cottage garden? if so show me:), 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
There is a thread titled "Native Prairie Garden" posted by GoNative Mar12, 2007, pg3, in this forum that has lots of good suggestions.
I try to use native grasses because some of the exotics can be very invasive. For my area I like Switch Grass cultivar Heavy Metal with blue foliage, Little Bluestem cultivar "The Blues" (this one has a lovely pink tone to the stem in the fall) and Indian Grass "Sioux Blue".
At this time of year the grasses are under 2' and the Spring blooming plants hide them. In this group I've planted Baptisia "Prairie Smoke", columbine, stokesia Purple Parasol, red poppy, coneflower and amsonia, and penstemon Husker Red.

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