{"id":5835,"date":"2017-09-15T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T18:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plantswomandesign.com\/?p=5835"},"modified":"2019-09-27T12:14:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:14:19","slug":"wispy-wild-wonderful-grasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plantswomandesign.com\/index.php\/wispy-wild-wonderful-grasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Wispy, Wild, Wonderful Grasses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – intro” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”]\r\n\r\nTraveling is an amazing way to experience many different ways to plant, plants to use, and new ideas. Reading (for those who can\u2019t travel) is another way to be inspired. I love to read books about gardening but I also love to read magazines. One of the best magazines to be inspired by is Garden Design Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Aside from a total lack of advertising, which is amazing in itself, the pictures and articles take you to a place you can\u2019t go except on a very expensive vacation. The Autumn 2015 Garden Design Magazine<\/span> took me to a place (on paper) that was truly inspiring. The wiles and ways of grasses can be very alluring and Le Jardin Plume<\/a>, Feather Garden<\/span>, in Auzouville-sur-Ry France is an amazing showcase of these lovely plants.\r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.0.74″ show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” src=”http:\/\/plantswomandesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/the-feather-garden.jpg” align=”center” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_overlay=”off” border_style=”solid” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – source” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”]\r\n

(source)<\/a><\/p>\r\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – le jardin plume” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”]\r\n\r\nThis is a fascinating garden. Grasses are used throughout the entire garden in modern meadow plantings and inspired the name \u2018the Feather Garden\u2019. I am particularly inspired by the beautiful boxwood hedge<\/span> that is shaped as a wave. The hard edges and great curves in the hedge are accented by the planting behind it. \u00a0\u00a0Calamagrostis grass<\/span> with asters<\/span>, thalictrum<\/span>, veronicastrum<\/span>, and sanguisorba<\/span> in crimson and white are planted in small groups behind the hedge.\u00a0 The grasses are cut down during the winter keeping the clean lines of structure in the boxwood uncluttered.\u00a0\u00a0 As the season progresses the grasses and blooms create an unstructured, tall, transparent wave of its own, a feathery mix that echoes the motion of the wave.\r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image – PWD Plume” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” src=”http:\/\/plantswomandesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plantswoman-design-grasses-004.jpg” align=”center” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_overlay=”off” border_style=”solid” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – PWD le jardin plume” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”]\r\n\r\nWhile I don\u2019t have the scope and space that Le Jardin Plume has I think I can use the same principles to create something similar in my own garden.\u00a0 Just behind the Koi pond there is a path that moves through two different areas of the garden. This is a perfect place to plant the boxwood hedge. The straight lines of the stone covered edge on the pond will echo the boxwood hedge and as it grows taller will be visible behind the pond from across the lawn.\r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image – PWD Plume 002″ _builder_version=”3.0.74″ show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” src=”http:\/\/plantswomandesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plantswoman-design-grasses-004.jpg” align=”center” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_overlay=”off” border_style=”solid” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – PWD le jardin plume 2″ _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”]\r\n\r\nI\u2019ve used Stipa gigantea<\/span> (one of my FAVORITE) grasses as the base with white agapanthus<\/span>, Amsonia \u2018Blue Ice\u2019<\/span>, and salvia<\/span> behind that. I am being a little more structured in the planting scheme than the random planting at The Feathers but I think it looks unstructured from a distance. The tall inflorescence of the stipa look so fabulous during the spring, summer and fall.\u00a0 The evergreen leaves of the grass have a blue cast that will look amazing in the bright light of the water\u2019s edge. I\u2019m thinking I might add some fall asters to the mix. The Amsoni<\/span>a goes an amazing wheat color as it fades so will blend with the grasses as they go soft caramel.\u00a0 (amsonia \u2018Blue Ice\u2019 is available from Burpee<\/a>).\r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image – beach garden” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” src=”http:\/\/plantswomandesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/plantswoman-design-grasses-001.jpg” align=”center” always_center_on_mobile=”on” use_overlay=”off” border_style=”solid” force_fullwidth=”off” show_bottom_space=”on” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text – conclusion” _builder_version=”3.0.74″ background_layout=”light” border_style=”solid”]\r\n\r\nThis beach garden has a beautiful planting of blue agapanthus with Stipa gigantea.\u00a0 Back lit it is stunning. Already this year the boxwood in the back has grown about 12-15 inches. The ground cover on the path is black pebbles, fine granite gravel, and thymus minus on the edges.\r\n\r\nHere is the planting of the soon wave hedge!\r\n\r\nWhat inspires you?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Garden visits and travel (Blodel Reserve<\/a>, see my Traveling Plantswoman posts<\/a>), Lectures (Anna Pavord at Meany Hall in Seattle), specialty nursery sales (Plant Fest from the Hardy Plant Society in Portland<\/a>), or visits to local gardeners to visit them and talk about plants (Windcliff Open days<\/a>).\r\n\r\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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