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 hole...