Seattle Times: Giant feather grass — Stipa gigantea — adds color and texture to the garden Giant feather grass — Stipa gigantea — adds color and texture to the garden What: Stipa gigantea is a statuesque grass. Tufts of 18-inch foliage explode with emerging seed heads in early summer. The seed heads grow 6 to 8 feet and hold large teardrop-like seeds that dry to a ...
Given the choice between ‘Blond Ambition’ and ‘Purple Stipa,’ which would you choose? These are not the names of rock bands, but rather California native grasses that make your garden rock. They ... Three years ago I sowed a packet of seed of the beautiful, ethereal feather grass, Stipa tenuissima.
grass stipa, At first they appeared as hair-like seedlings but by that autumn the small plants were growing in ... Invite a graceful giant into your garden. Ornamental grasses are known to bring texture, softness and movement to the mixed border, but one of the most striking and unusual of ornamental grasses is so ... Ornamental grasses and their grasslike cousins have firmly established themselves as key elements in the modern garden, and their ranks keep swelling. That may be because ornamental grasses offer many ...
grass stipa, Seattle Times: A guide to the verdant perks of gardening with ornamental grasses
