Now that all of the snow has melted, it has become obvious again just how much my garden is dominated by ornamental grasses. Call me crazy, but I’ll take all of the browns/buffs/beige/reddish browns over the white stuff any day. I find it oddly soothing, especially during one of our warmer and foggy days like today.
I kid you not, these pics are all from different sections of the garden even if they appear to be repeats. Even I had to look twice at some of these. I guess you can’t have too much of a good thing.
It was hard to locate angles without a grass in the shot, but I did manage to find a few.
I’m crazy for grasses too (obviously). Your pics look beautiful. They show how a little moisture intensifies and saturates the grasses’ colors.
James – I hold you up as the gold standard but thank you. You are so dead on in regards to the benefit of moisture.
All those wonderful earthy colors really resonate with me and I so enjoy the presence of the grasses through the winter in my own garden areas…although I’m a pathetic piker in the number of clumps compared to yours. I also love the buff colored presence of the spent hydrangea blooms. I guess their appeal is that they are standing proof of the cycle of nature.
Michaele – I honestly would be lost without the grasses and that has become abundantly clear this year. You are right about the spent hydrangea blooms except I can’t get my hydrangeas to bloom very well!
Your grasses always make a statement in your garden but you’re right that their impact is writ large this time of year.
Kris – thank god for the grasses, they keep me going.
It all looks so beautiful.
Thanks to your blog I have started to include grasses in my yard as well.
Meta – woo hoo for me! Happy to have influenced you and best of luck with your grasses. They kick booty.
It’s lovely. You seem to have so much more color on the snowless days than we do here in the north. It’s such a drab, gray landscape here without the snow. For me, it’s the in-between, cold, rainy days that are the hardest. Snow, sun, dry, and 20s aren’t quite as difficult on the joints and disposition. But your winter weather is probably more often 40s and 50s for highs? Your photos are beautiful.
Beth – we dip into the teens and lower here in NJ and they are quite painful and ugly. Soon we’ll be at that same drab landscape and that is when the plant catalogs come out.