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I brought home some small quarts from Roy Diblik's Northwind Perennial Farm earlier this month with designs on adding them to some blank spots in the garden.  I was able to successfully stick to my plan of buying things that I already have on-hand and know they work well (in terms of growing conditions) in our garden.  I ended up with ten quarts, five of two different plants.  Today, I'll post the details of one of them:  Autumn Moor Grass.  Seslelaria Autumnalis.   Here are the five quart nursery pots from Northwind Perennial Farm: I started my Autumn Moor Grass journey in the Fall of 2023 when I planted a bunch of them in our front porch bed .  I divided a few of them over the years - something I should do again this Fall. These five are going into the very front of the IB2DWs bed.  Down by the sidewalk.  This is a 'hard to grow' area, but I've been amending the soil with biosolids and have mulched it heavy the past few growing seasons...

Yesterday, I showed how I moved out a 'mystery' Sesleria to the IB2DWs bed down by the sidewalk.  That left a hole in the front porch bed that I wanted to fill with what was already there:  Autumn Moor Grass.  These things are THRIVING, so it was easy to pick up and divide it. I ended up dividing a clump into three pieces.  I put one back into the original hole, one in the newly created hole (via mystery sesleria transplant) and I tucked the third one into IB2DWs - next to some Serendipity Alliums.   Below are a few photos - first the two smaller divisions: far left and second from the right.  I tucked them in with a combination of compost and biosolids.   And here below is the third from the division - in the IB2DWs bed about half-way down the driveway: This gave me a +2 plants via division.   I need to total up all Fall:  +2 trees, +2 John Greelee Grasses, +6 Ajuga = +10 planted.  And...+1 red swtichgrass, +1 mystery gra...

The hedge of Sesalaria Autumnalis - Autumn Moor Grass - is throwing off a fireworks show of seed heads in our front porch bed.  I planted these last year - in front of the existing boxwoods.   And...they've done a really great job of getting established and putting on some size.   A look back at late Fall last year (October 2023) and you can see that they're not quite touching each other and were spaced appropriately.  This year?  They've butting up against each other side-to-side.  Pretty nice.  See below for the current view from our front stoop looking south: I split this front bed between these Autumn Moor Grasses and Summer Beauty Alliums.   The post I put up a few weeks ago showing the full front porch view really shows the difference between the Alliums and these grasses .  The alliums are MUCH more showy.   I'm thinking about a garden edit up here - removing the Summer Beauty Alliums and replacing them with ev...