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Ornamental grasses for Minnesota

Ornamental grasses for Minnesota. Features of ornamental grasses. Few insect of disease problems Require little or no supplemental fertilizer Little maintenance except spring cut-back More than one season of interest Fast growing Wide variation in texture, height and foliage color

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Ornamental grasses for Minnesota

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  1. Ornamental grasses for Minnesota

  2. Features of ornamental grasses • Few insect of disease problems • Require little or no supplemental fertilizer • Little maintenance except spring cut-back • More than one season of interest • Fast growing • Wide variation in texture, height and foliage color • Movement: audio and visual

  3. blue oatgrass

  4. hakone grass

  5. feather reedgrass

  6. feather reedgrass

  7. red switchgrass

  8. miscanthusGraziella

  9. miscanthusGraziella

  10. miscanthusGraziella

  11. red flamemiscanthus

  12. switchgrass

  13. giant miscanthus

  14. color variation

  15. autumn light miscanthus

  16. Misconceptions about ornamental grasses • Lack of cold hardiness | many different kinds are hardy in USDA Zone 4 • Invasive roots make these plants difficult to contain | 95% are bunch grasses and form dense clumps

  17. feather reedgrass

  18. silver spikegrass

  19. fall blooming reedgrass

  20. windplaymoorgrass

  21. molinia

  22. little bluestem

  23. prairie dropseed

  24. crimson fountaingrass

  25. fountain grass

  26. big bluestem

  27. little bluestem

  28. switch grass

  29. sedges

  30. carexflava

  31. mace sedge

  32. palm sedge

  33. palm sedge

  34. black sedge

  35. tufted hairgrass

  36. hakone grass

  37. cordgrass

  38. aureomarginata

  39. Grasses with invasive rhizomes • Miscanthus sacchariflorus – miscanthus • Leymus (Elymus) – blue rye • Phalaris – ribbon grass • Spartina – prairie cordgrass

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