This post nearly didn’t happen. I’ve spent the past two weeks picking tomatoes with nephews, changing computers and filling in forms that require me to go in to brutal detail about my current health, or lack thereof. The nephews were delightful but exhausting, the rest just exhausting, and it has left me feeling a tad…
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A wonderfully structural plant as it forms a quite tight vase-like shape with gracefully cascading narrow strap-like leaves. The flowers are held rather more stiffly than on Miscanthus sinensis ‘China’, so it holds its shape very well, even under snow, but is perhaps a little less “pretty”. Planted at the back of the pond border….
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A wonderfully structural grass, with deep red flower plumes from August. The seedheads carry on looking good through the winter, particularly with low autumn light shining through or covered in frost. Two specimens in pond bed. Very graceful arching leaves in a neat upright shape.
Like most people across the UK I awoke yesterday to a Winter Wonderland. Grateful that I didn’t need to drive anywhere, I layered fleeces over my pyjamas, grabbed my wellies and my camera, and ventured out into the magical hush of fresh snow. There’s nothing quite like the sound of that crunch underfoot. The white…
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Important update: This is NOT ‘Morning Light’, it is ‘China’!! Sorry about the mis-identification, I’d lost my planting list. Thank goodness for computers. Apologies for slight post overload, I’d forgotten when I put my earlier post up that I had promised to join in the new blog carnival celebrating the plant of the moment, started…
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