Mystery Blue Green Moor Grass - Transplanted And Divided IBDWs - October 2024

Last year, I bought and planted a number of (what I thought at the time) were Sesleria Autumnalis - Autumn Moor Grasses - across the front of our front porch beds.  I say 'at the time' because I've learned in the time since that ONE of the plants is not like the other.  The Autumn Moor Grasses put on a show the past two Falls and have thin, yellow-ish blades come October.  The other grass is blue-green and doesn't have the fireworks explosion that the others have each Fall.

See below for a look at this one mystery blue-green grass in between a volunteer Dusty Miller and an Autumn Moor Grass:

The Autumn Moor Grasses are THRIVING, so I figured...why not transplant this mis-label'd 'mystery' grass and replace it with a divided Autumn Moor Grass.  That's what I did - I dug it up and moved it.  Not before dividing it into two good-sized clumps and one HOPEFUL strand.  I put them right against the sidewalk in the hard-to-grow area IB2Dws.  I filled the holes with biosolids and re-applied the wood mulch (from a bag from a big box store) on top to hopefully help keeping the moisture in this Fall.

Below is another look at these mystery grasses along with the (newly) dividied Red Switchgrass next to them:

I'll water these in the next few weeks and hope they come back in Spring.

I also need to watch if they seed-out in Spring - if they do, they might be identified as: Sesleria Heufleriana.  Why do I say that?  Looking back at this photo of the nursery tables at Northwind, look what is RIGHT NEXT TO Autumnalis:

Spring black seed heads solve the mystery....

Fall Planting 2024 List

• A semi-dwaf, mostly upright conifer tree - the Oregon Green Austrian Pine - planted in the front yard along the south property line.  #ConifersShouldComeFirst
• The Skylands Spruce - container grown from Conifer Kingdom.  Planted in the back of the Island Bed in the front yard.  #HideAndReveal
• Two new and one transplanted John Greenlee Moor Grass (Seslaria) in the island bed in front of the Northern Glow Korean Maple.  
• Six Ajuga 'Chocolate Chip' groundcover plugs planted in the Island Bed in the front yard. 
• While not a 'planting' or 'dividing' project, I extended the front porch beds out a foot-or-so.  
• Dividing an existing Red Switchgrass down IB2DWs near the sidewalk.  From one grass to two - hoping to rejuvenate the crown of this ornamental grass and get it going a little bit. 
• I dug up, divided and transplanted into two clumps a 'mystery' blue-green sesleria/or ornamental grass from the front porch bed down to IB2DWs along the sidewalk.