Painted my ornamental grass

Yeah, I know, sounds bizarre, but it sure livens up the landscape when the world turns beige.

What color did you paint it?
How about a photo?

lupy, I saw some pampas grass that was several colors once, wondered how that came about! Didja spray paint your grass? I had wondered about watering it with dyed water (you know, kinda like we would do to celery stalks in school and the water would wick up into the stalk.)

Spray paint :) As long as you stick with the kind of grass that loses its leaves in the spring anyway, it doesn't hurt the roots. Last year I painted my Northern Sea Oats and my Porcupine Grass. This year I painted my Panicum 'Dallas Blue'.

I will post photos in a few weeks: I am an old-fashioned photographer who uses a 35-mm camera, and need to finish the roll.

Last year I painted mine bright blue with red polka dots. This year I used metallic gold with bright red highlights. Next year ??? One of my nieces suggested bright purple with neon green stripes.

Well - hurry up and finish that roll of film!! We wanna see it!! :)

Lupine I agree with PS hurry and finish the roll of film. Oh the ideas running through my head. My neighbors would have a cow if I did that. They think I am the crazy plant lady now anyway the Brugs and the castor bean plants about did them in this year. lol If I get out there and paint my grass they will have me committed and not to sure my family wouldn't too. I love it!

I can't exactly envision this????? Elaine At first, I thought .......did lupine paint her grass on canvass or???

Mystic, most of my neighbors used to be SURE that I was so odd. I go around and collect all the old Christmas trees every year ... gather everyone's fallen leaves ... ripped out my grass lawn ... growing super-sized weeds for birdfood ... now almost all the neighbors are converts! They are doing things even odder. And the neighborhood looks better than ever!!!!!

On a dry day above freezing, grab a can of spray paint, the gaudier the better, and paint your ornamental grass! You will love it!!!! And if it doesn't turn out well, just trim it back to the ground. What difference does it make????

I will try to find the photo of last year's artistic effort. Not sure how long it will take ...

Holy blades, Batman! I never would have imagined painting my grasses! At first I thought you did this during its growing season and wondered about the photosynthesis and how that would be possible, but then I saw you'd painted it in its dormancy, LOL!

Oh Mystic, 'Shoe, PaintedLady, GW, anyone else bite the bullet and paint your grass yet? Still haven't found last year's photo, will look again later today (I did find a whole lot more seeds tho. Go check out my tradelist -- but only the seed part is current).

I don't have any ornamental grass to play with.
I know I would never have thought of painting anything before this post. If I get bored enough this winter, I might find something out there to liven up.

Go for it! Just pick something that puts up new growth in the spring. Show us if you can, OK?

BTW, if you would like seed for some ornamental grass, check my seed tradelist. I just updated it yesterday, so it is valid :)

Lupy:
Very cool and inovative. I love the ideas I have found on this site - - am amazed at the creativity and original thinking of the people here. I will have to try that -- maybe next year after I get my various grasses up and going.

Wow! :)

It isn't especially photogenic, but here it is: Paniculum 'Dallas Blue' in its red and gold-painted glory!

That looks good! It could almost be natural fall colors.
I thought it would look wild, but I like it. Don't know about the purple and green idea though.

Looks great -- I think it looks like natural fall colors too -- and I like that idea. If I do it next year - - I will probably stick with autumn colors.

I used blue flower paint on my echinacea last year and had everybody talking!! It was so much fun. Think I'll do my grasses on the next calm day. Thanks for the great idea!!

Got a photo?

This is exactly what one large wholesaler did! I bought a few flats of dwarf zinnias and some other simple things early last year. When they had been in the garden less than a week, I noticed most of them had no color or not the color they originally had. Closer inspection proved they had indeed been painted that too-good-to-be-true pink! I would like to know how on earth the grower managed to get the thousands of blooms painted so uniformly without a single painted leaf! When I washed a couple of blooms, the color just disappeared, not a trace left on a petal. No paint on the rag I used to daub, though!

I love this idea, am thinking of going along the highway and painting a few things on a slow Sunday morning, when there might not be such a liklihood I will be carried away by the men in white coats, me wearing a new coat with backward facing sleeves.

ladylavender: Where do you find this "flower paint"?

Aimee, I think I will bring some paint to our Garden Adventure!!!! Paint a fig leaf over Wintermoor's kilt! Sounds better than a grower painting the petunias. How odd.

Yes, paint a fig leaf! Actually, those were dwarf zinnias, ugly off-white ones, but the same idea. I'll be on the look out for the painted party in the pasture!

Alyssum,
Think it probably doesn't matter what kind of paint because it is plant material you will cut away in the spring - it's already dead. So probably any spray paint would work. Love the idea!
arlene