Friday, 14 March 2025

Festuca glauca - Blue Grass - did they survive the winter?

 These blue grasses were hugely popular when I first started gardening professionally, which is quite a few years ago - my, doesn't time fly, when you are enjoying yourself!


 

 

They seem to be losing favour recently, and I think it's because they often just can't make it through our damp winters.

Back in the days when I first started, we were having “proper” winters which were cold, frosty, often with snow, but which had a lot of winter sunshine, so plants had a chance to “dry out” during the day.

In recent years, and particularly the last five or ten years.....

 

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