tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post6503623434605445708..comments2024-03-24T12:55:07.300-04:00Comments on grounded design by Thomas Rainer: Warm Season vs. Cool Season GrassesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13805682623764800983noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-17059435331015272672015-01-28T01:46:20.208-05:002015-01-28T01:46:20.208-05:00Here in Australia, our warm season grass include t...Here in Australia, our warm season grass include the following: <a href="www.buffaloturf.com.au/sir-walter.php" rel="nofollow">Sir Walter</a>, Couch and <a href="http://www.sydneylawnandturf.com.au/kikuyu" rel="nofollow">Kikuyu</a><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08056204975312654862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-56837297646454630032014-07-30T17:14:14.198-04:002014-07-30T17:14:14.198-04:00Great post Thomas! It took me a while to realize t...Great post Thomas! It took me a while to realize there were two completely different communities of plants living at the same time in my prairies. A community (grasses and perennials) that grew from July (your December, yes quite early) and flower in Spring and a second community that "wake up" in the end of Spring or beginning of Summer. We also have a third group of grasses: the ones that are always green, those are very valuable at the time where we need structure during the winter. These facts where key to decide which would be the best moment of the year to do the annual or biannual cut in my wild prairies. I´ll send you pics to your mail.Amalia R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09380512131224429302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-53229762604411929242011-02-09T11:43:56.625-05:002011-02-09T11:43:56.625-05:00Great post - what comes to mind is how those warm-...Great post - what comes to mind is how those warm-season grasses or any grasses are maintained. <br /><br />You get more snow than us, which might beat down dormant grasses, but our only native grasses in ABQ are warm season. Most cool-season grasses hate life here, short of major irrigation life-support. In successful landscapes and nature here, succulents such as yuccas and sotols add winter form; walls used to define such edges still don't work without something green or blue-green growing adjacent.<br /><br />Perhaps a mass of those warm-season grasses along a path could be left uncut until spring (the background ones cut, if needed), when new growth appears? Why were all those grasses cut before spring...a need for neatness? Or?<br /><br />I agree that defining "the edge" with something of a greener, winter presense is so key.Desert Dwellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00952727692048782529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-81239650188369666352011-02-09T11:41:06.754-05:002011-02-09T11:41:06.754-05:00Thomas,
I am the Garden Blog editor for Horticult...Thomas, <br />I am the Garden Blog editor for Horticulture Magazine. I would like to talk to you about our Best Gardening Blogs award. Can you contact me at gardenjen70@yahoo.com please?<br />Thank you!<br />JennyJennifer Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09541245303255432700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-75732059131226796422011-02-09T10:22:37.721-05:002011-02-09T10:22:37.721-05:00Does the late maturation of WSG happen every year ...Does the late maturation of WSG happen every year or does it lessen as the grasses establish themselves and mature in a planting?adelehttp://nearyou.gwu.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-42512386272624768682011-02-09T09:28:18.694-05:002011-02-09T09:28:18.694-05:00Calamagrostis is definitely one of those cool seas...Calamagrostis is definitely one of those cool season grasses that looks good in the heat of summer and the dead of winter. And you don't have to wait till August for it to look good.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13805682623764800983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-91955167926034039632011-02-09T06:30:04.387-05:002011-02-09T06:30:04.387-05:00Precisely for the reasons you outline the grass I ...Precisely for the reasons you outline the grass I use most frequently in my plantings is Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Overdam'. This particular cultivar is lower growing than C. x a. 'Karl Foerster' and I find it more in scale in private gardens. (The variegation in the foliage is minimal and not a negative feature).<br />In spring it creates the perfect setting for tulips, flowering in early summer the dormant seed heads are its main feature till the end of winter. I cut my plants down yesterday and they were still making a tidy bold contribution to the garden.Michael Kinghttp://www.perennialmeadows.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-10941648102775502892011-02-08T16:30:03.201-05:002011-02-08T16:30:03.201-05:00I'm with you, I'm crazy for grasses, if on...I'm with you, I'm crazy for grasses, if only I could convince my partner to see things my way! I've known there was a distinction in the grasses, but could never remember which grasses were which. I'll definitely have to take this into consideration when doing future plantings, especially as I seem to have chosen predominantly warm season grasses in the past...I need to expand into cool season grasses for interest earlier in the season.scottweberpdxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08740930947767329183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-74306669103174029142011-02-08T10:49:39.802-05:002011-02-08T10:49:39.802-05:00Fascinating. I never paid attention to this disti...Fascinating. I never paid attention to this distinction, but now looking back at the grasses I've used, this makes total sense. Very informative post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-41518860373453665922011-02-08T10:30:36.915-05:002011-02-08T10:30:36.915-05:00Foy,
That's a good point. I 's interestin...Foy,<br /><br />That's a good point. I 's interesting that with lawns, the topic of cool and warm season is widely discussed, but with ornamental grasses, it rarely is. Once I started thinking about the ornamental grasses I use in terms of warm and cool season, it really explained a lot of their behavior in a landscape.<br />ThomasThomashttp://www.groundeddesign.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8850578816787718159.post-11944744260162896292011-02-08T09:10:55.247-05:002011-02-08T09:10:55.247-05:00Interesting, while I completely understood the con...Interesting, while I completely understood the concept of cool season/warm season as it applies to turf, I hadn't considered it for ornamentals. Although, now that you mention it, I can think of examples of both grasses in my garden.Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15806422800093554729noreply@blogger.com