Ornamental grasses for my area?

Hi,
I'm just setting up the landscaping for my yard and I'm considering putting a couple of ornamental mid-size grasses across my frontage to form a psuedo hedge with color. I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on these they can share? The goal is to have color out there from spring thru late fall without having to maintain or water too much.

- Pink Muhly Grass
- Gay Feather (Liatris Kobold)

I have solid clay soil in full sun and seem to be on the line between Zones 7 & 8.

If you have any other suggestions, please share!!

Thank you!!

You got me at the solid clay, not sure how to handle that and how grasses do in it.

Maybe I shouldn't have said "solid" clay. But it's very, very hard. I can only dig about 2 inches at a time, then have to put gypsum on it, soak it, and wait overnight before I can dig another couple of inches. It's ridiculous and I'm probably going to put raised beds in everywhere.

That's solid. LOL. I'm thinking a big tiller and a whole lot of something else mixed in. Raised beds may be the way to go. Doesn't Anderson have a lot of farmland around it? Thought they grew tabacco around there?

i'm pretty sure the tobacco is mainly grown in the northern coastal plain like Horry and Marlboro counties.

It has some crops growing around, but I haven't seen tobacco - that would be interesting to see. I think my little development may have been a cattle grazing area before they sold some of it, 'cus there's still a small herd of them at the end of the deadend street.

My brother, who lives just a few miles away, has beautiful dark dirt, but it's because it's been sitting under trees for most of its life. This clay here is a real pain in the butt and I don't have the strength or the lung capacity to fight it, hence the raised beds.

Zebra Grass will do well---can't think of the real name, miscanthis something...it gets tall but there are shorter ones 'gold bar' is pretty... arundo will do well to, it gets tall

Both do well in clay....we do have pretty solid clay here

There are lots of grasses that seem to do well in clay, unfortunately I don't grow many, but I'll ask my friend that does

I bet the developers scraped off all the good topsoil and sold it before they started building. It has been my understanding that gypsum is good for clay soils as it binds the fine clay particles together into larger particles so there can be air spaces between them. However, it does take months to really accomplish this. When I lived in the Midlands in an area with heavy clay I dug my planting holes with a Mantis tiller; it was small and light enough to get right down into the hole.

Corey, gypsum is also good for our salty coastal soils.