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:
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.
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