21 Ornamental grasses - Low Maintenance Plants For The Garden

Ornamental Grasses can add texture, height and colour to your garden. They provide year round interest, make good ground cover plants, nare generally low maintenance and are easy care.
Grasses can be grown in the garden border or in pots. Some of the better types produce attractive flowers and seed heads and types suited to full sun or shade are all available.
We look at 21 Ornamental Grasses for your garden with Craig Wilson from Gentiana Nursery.
Key Moments
00:13 Pennisetum orientale
01:10 Miscanthus 'Eileen Quinn'
01:24 Hakonechloa macra - Japanese Forest Grass
02:08 Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal'
02:36 Chionochloa flavens
03:03 Hakonechloa macra aureola
03:15 Imperata cylindrica rubra - Japanese Blood Grass
03:33 Carex oshimensis variegated form - Japanese sedge
03:55 Carex species
04:22 Carex oshimensis
04:55 Miscanthus transmorrisonensis
05:22 Poa species - Blue Tussock Grass
05:55 Austrostipa stipoides
06:22 Miscanthus 'Falling Water'
06:69 Miscanthus nepalense - Himalayan Fairy grass or Nepalese Grass
07:26 Uncinia uncinata rubra
07:41 Stipa gigantea Beth Chattos Form
08:02 Miscanthus sinensis Saraband
08:13 Calamagrostis Karl Foerster
08:23 Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrina'
08:41 Miscanthus sinensis Kleine Fontaine

[@Loogiemistress]

Beautiful , thank you.. Would also love to see a video of just native grasses :)

[@johnnyAGardening]

Noted! Will work on that one, should keep us busy....

[@Zincink]

I have a native type of grass I get every year but I want to expand as see the difference so this video was helpful.

[@Kay-qt2id]

Fabulous video I can’t get enough info on grasses , always so much to learn thank you both

[@nerinat8371]

Great looking plants, thanks guys

[@johnnyAGardening]

Hello Nerina, thanks for watching, hope to have some more on grasses for the garden soon.

[@Senorita_Belo]

I love ornamental grasses! I feel they are so underrated and underused.

[@johnnyAGardening]

Hello Annel, our sentiments exactly, more coming soon.