Content
- The feather grass in the garden: advantages, location and propagation
- This convinces the feather grass!
- Which location does this ornamental grass need?
- Which plant partners are suitable?
- Propagation: division or sowing
- Tips
The beautiful feather grass is a decorative, easy-care grass for the garden
The feather grass in the garden: advantages, location and propagation
This hardy and perennial ornamental grass is the ideal choice for dry locations in the garden.It really loves the heat and dryness. Nevertheless, it convinces with a healthy appearance, whose main accent hair-thin stalks and silky shimmering flower greenery form.
This convinces the feather grass!
There are numerous features that make feather grass a fast friend among gardeners:
Which location does this ornamental grass need?
The feather grass, which is considered to be extremely easy to care for, feels at home where most other plants are reluctant. It loves sunny, warm and at the same time dry locations. Heat is not a problem, nor is dryness. Optimal protected layers are suitable.
The soil in which the feather grass embeds its roots should have the following characteristics:
Which plant partners are suitable?
Well, the feather grass makes itself next to other drought-loving steppe plants. In addition to bulbous plants such as Allium sphaerocephalon it comes tastefully expressed. Planting partners, with whom it is often planted in gardens, include sedge, sage, asters, daylilies, sun hat, miscanthus, lavender, columbine, and lamprey grass.
Propagation: division or sowing
In early spring, the feather grass can be shared. Just dig out the root ball, divide it in the middle and plant the new part in another place.
Another method of propagation is sowing. Although the feather grass is quite short-lived. But it likes to sow itself. It hurls its seeds meter-wide due to an inherent tension in the seed stalls. The seeds are also transported by the help of animals and humans. Targeted sowing will be tackled between February and June.
Tips
Even if the feather grass on the water's edge like the garden pond would set great accents. For such a location it is absolutely inappropriate. There the soil is too wet for him.