Black Mondo Grass

I've had this plant for a while, the green is new growth, this plant is in need of some major dividing.

The blooms are so pretty but they only last a week or two.

This plant I divided about three years ago, it has finally bloomed. No wonder this stuff is so expensive...

I keep this perennial grass in containers under the canopy of an old deciduous oak tree on our north-facing patio.

Black Mondo Grass

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New(ish) Planter

Today I planted a pot up with three plants I've had since last summer. I've had the pot since then as well, but I just got around to putting them together today.

The plants have been in little 4" containers that were drying out quickly and needed water pretty much daily, and the pot has been sitting there with dirt in it, but no plants, and I just realized looking at all these things today that they would look great together.

The plants include a groundcover, Brass Buttons (Unchina 'Uncinata red'), a Grass, leptinella 'Squalida' and a Lobelia 'Queen Victoria' they all have a reddish/purple tone to their foliage, and the Lobelia blooms with a bright red bloom in the mid summer (soon!).

Eyebrow Grass

 

I love funny plants, and this one tops the list for the moment, It's callled eyebrow grass because the seed heads look like little eyebrows. Apperently this little guy is native to the U.S. and the destruction of it was one of the main causes of the dust bowl.

I bought a bursting 4" pot of it from Annies Annuals, and promtly split it in half to make two plants, it seems to have survived the split, and is doing well in a bright shade area of my garden while it waits for a permenant home in my garden.

Black Mondo grass

Black mondo grass is great looking but very expensive as far as grasses go. I'll divide this when it's ready to get a few plants out of  my $14 investment. Right now it's blooming, with these spikes of fantastic little blooms.