How To Use Fountain grass In A Sentence
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Over my years of working as a research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service in Hawaii, I watched fountain grass repeatedly rise up like a green phoenix after ecologically devastating wildfires and rapidly establish in what to this species is a very favorable postfire environment of increased light and nutrients and decreased plant competition.
Robert J. Cabin: The Wildfires in Hawaii Are a Loss for Our World
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Fountain grass forms foxtail flowers in the fall, and these plumes wave over the foliage for three months or more.
Grow glorious grasses in your landscape
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For cooler colors, set purple fountain grass in the middle of a 24-inch-wide pot and surround it with ‘Blue Pearl’ annual vinca, purple heliotrope, and variegated Plectranthus.
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In cottage gardens, old standbys such as asters, daylilies, delphiniums, and hostas mix with newer perennials such as coreopsis and ornamental grasses such as fountain grass and blood grass.
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He interplants hakonechloa, fountain grass (Pennisetum spp.) and eulalia grass (Miscanthus spp.) with his bulbs.
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In cottage gardens, old standbys such as asters, daylilies, delphiniums, and hostas mix with newer perennials such as coreopsis and ornamental grasses such as fountain grass and blood grass.
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It's the first purple fountain grass, boasting tricoloured foliage, it is perfect for mixing with summer bedding and pots.
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