Grass gardens

  I've been wanting to try some of this fancy grass garden thing for a while.
Today I bought some grass!

I'm on a mountain in the Monara/ACT region, it's very windy, very shaley
hydro-phobic soil, and usually quite dry. We have irrigation to get thigns
(trees!) to grow, but I've a preference not to do this.

The spot I'm going to experiment with, before doing a proper large grass
garden, is a little scrap strip at the base of a rock wall, and enclosed by
flat paving. I'm hoping the water from the lawn at the top of the wall will
filter down to my little grasses, and the paving will also trap moisture.

I want to do something like a minature landscape, with indigenous rocks, and
tufty grass. What I really like is Poa-type grass, snowgrass being the best,
but shopping in teh rain today, best prospect I found was some Blue Fescue
stuff.  Had been idly thinking of Mondo, although it's not really my thing,
but lady at the nursery said it's more of a watering grass. So I'm back with
the dry tufty types to start with.

Anyway, can anyone see problems with this blue Fescue?  And are there any
other good tough tufty grasses easily obtainable? It's hot and dry in
summer, (and windy), cold and dry and windy in winter.

I want to make something with embedded rocks, and tufts, maybe a little bit
of gravel... like a bonsai landscape.

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ant

 
What I really like is Poa-type grass, snowgrass being the best,

back with

there any

Just how much Poa do you want?  You can stop by the roadside on the
way to Cooma and dig out as much Poa as you like.

 loosecanon wrote:

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Thanks. I've been to a weeds day, got a coloured sheet handout, all the
stuff, and I'm still scratching my head.  Nearest thing I can find in it is
that the serrated tussock has purple bases. Haven't found any of those yet,
but there's some things near the trees that develop long seed fronds in
summer.
thing is I don't want to be ripping out good grass mistakenly thinking it's
serrated tussock. Maybe I should volunteer my place for the next weed day.

Looking at the site though, all the big stuff down near the trees may well
be serrated tussock.Great!

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ant

 
ant wrote:

Take a look at

http://www.weeds.crc.org.au/documents/wmg_serrated_tussock.pdf

They refer to the Tasmanian DPI's checklist for identifying ST and that
states that " "The leaf cases are more tightly packed and more slender
than other tussocks and are a whitish colour - never purplr or
blue-green"

The seed heads create quite a fire hazard in the outer western suburbs
of Melbourne.

 GreenieLeBrun wrote:

argh. they say never purple, but hte previous site said the fluffy seed-mess
is purple! and my sheet, I'm pretty sure, says the seating for the leaves
etc at the base is purple.


I do get some of the heads rolling up and becoming tumble weed type things.
But it could be good tussock, not evil tussock. Very frustrating.


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ant