Decorative Grasses Australia
Today online plants has over 30 species of lomandra alone exquisite and delicate forms such as the dwarf little con and fiber optics to the vigorous pennistem moulin rouge.
Decorative grasses australia. Mondo grass ophiopogon perhaps one of the better known ornamental grasses. In recent years the range of grasses suitable for australian gardens has quadrupled. Adding a point of difference are the variegated leaves or the plain green foliage changing to red orange or bronze in autumn and the colours of the plumes that range from pale silver to beige buff to deep purple red v.
However mondo grass also comes in green as well as ltaller growing species. Kingsdale whose bluish arching foliage reaches 50 60cm. There are more than 150 varieties of miscanthis sinensis or japanese plume grass japanese pampas grass maiden silver grass zebra grass porcupine grass and they come in a variety of heights leaf widths leaf colours and flower plume colours.
For a medium height native australian grass try poa labillardieri eskdale with fine blue green upright foliage to 80cm and poa poiformis kingsdale whose bluish arching foliage reaches 50 60cm.