Grasses special

Gardening with the RHS

Royal Horticultural Society

Home & Garden, Leisure, Hobbies

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This week we're going wild for some of the daintiest, most airy and graceful plants out there - ornamental grasses. Author and RHS Editor Gareth Richards shares his favourites and offers tips on how to use them in the garden. Eminent expert and nurseryman Neil Lucas takes us on a tour of one of the best grass gardens in the country, Knoll Gardens in Dorset. Plus growing tips from RHS Gardening Advisor Nicky Barker, and we delve into the undergrowth to meet some grass-loving creatures - conehead crickets - with Brian Eversham of The Wildlife Trusts. In our houseplant series, Wisley Horticulturist Alex Young tackles repotting. **Plants mentioned** Grasses: Deschampsia, Hakonechloa macra, Calamagrostis, Pennisetum, Arundo donax, Carex oshimensis Evercolor Series, Molinia, Stipa gigantea, Panicum, Miscanthus, Festuca glauca, Poa, Sporolobus, Miscanthus 'Cindy' & 'Starlight', Miscanthus giganteus; Imperata cylindrica 'Rubra', Milium effusum 'Aureaum', Festuca 'Elijah Blue' Perennials: Rudbeckia, Echinacea, Verbena bonariensis, Aconitum, Scabiosa, wild carrot (Daucus carota) Find plant suppliers: rhs.org.uk/findaplant Discover grasses: rhs.org.uk/plants/types/grasses knollgardens.co.uk

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0:00.0	Get your tickets for the greatest show in Earth at an RHS garden near you.
0:06.4	Where nature puts on an unforgettable performance of colour and fragrance to delight your senses.
0:13.2	Inspire your gardening adventures and entertain your own little stars.
0:17.4	Race you, let's go.
0:19.5	Catch Springs finest scenes while you can at an RHS garden near you, let's go. Catch Springs, finest scenes while you can,
0:22.1	at an RHS garden near you.
0:24.0	Book tickets online for discounts,
0:26.0	plus under fives go free and under 16s of five pounds.
0:32.3	They have this airy kind of graceful quality.
0:35.5	They move in the wind and they catch the light.
0:39.1	This is Gareth Richards, an editor here at the RHS, and he's telling me all about a garden favourite of his.
0:47.5	They're like a rescue remedy for your garden, so if your garden's looking lumpy and everything's green and the same texture,
0:53.5	you put some grasses in there and
0:55.0	suddenly it's transformed.
0:57.0	He absolutely loves grasses.
1:00.0	Grasses are really long-lasting too. You can have colour and movement and texture in
1:05.0	your garden 365 days a year, whether that's through evergreens or deciduous ones that change different colours in the winter,
1:12.6	there is a grass for every moment. And he's not wrong. This time of year is brilliant for grasses.
1:20.2	They're flowering and their flowers will be followed by seed heads and they'll look good
1:23.8	right the way through winter until the frost and snow and rain beats them down in
1:29.3	January when they're given a jolly good trim and we start all over again.
1:34.9	That's why I've decided to dedicate this week's edition of Gardening with the RHS with me, Guy Barta,
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