Dec 27 2012 looking for a high impact plant that is easy to care for and low maintenance in the colorado landscape.
Decorative grasses colorado. These low maintenance plants can also make colorado landscapes more interesting by adding height movement and even sound. Ornamental grasses are a perfect fit. It can reach up to 6 feet in flower and is drought tolerant once established. That offer many sizes colors and shapes.
Wolfgang oehme and the new american garden by stefan leppert frances lincoln publishers 2009. Looking for a beautiful resilient ornamental grass for your colorado landscape. Cool season grasses produce new growth about the same time as bulbs and peonies while warm season grasses tend to wait until warmer weather begins. Catherine moravec with colorado yard care will show you its.
See more ideas about ornamental grasses colorado landscape landscape. Big bluestem is an upright bunch grass with good fall color. Apr 9 2019 explore jherzanek s board tall decorative grasses for colorado followed by 942 people on pinterest. Take advantage of these traits to complement spring flowers or hide dying bulb foliage.
Ornamental grasses add height dimension and privacy to manicured landscapes and are favored for their low maintenance and high adaptability to various soil types. This is a high and dry steppe climate dominated by short grasses of inches in height that include buffalo grass buchloe dactyloides and blue grama bouteloua gracilis the state grass of colorado the area is semiarid and the average annual rainfall is 10 to. Japanese silver grass little kitten maiden grass miscanthus items 1 to 24 of 45 total show 24 48 96 per page. Grasses come in several varieties.
Consider little bluestem schizachyrium scoparium. See more ideas about ornamental grasses grasses garden outdoor gardens. Ornamental grasses in colorado are native to the area or naturalized imports that tolerate the colorado soil well gracefully complementing the state s beautiful environment. Csu extension colorado planttalk ornamental grasses gardening xeriscape.
Color and texture aren t the only benefits you can reap with ornamental grass. The front range and eastern plains of colorado are part of the short grass prairie that lies in the rain shadow of the rocky mountains.