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Can you identify this grass please?

LoanaLoana Posts: 427

Hi forumites, can anyone tell me what this grass is. It was in an NGS garden this summer but sadly it person who planted it could not remember the name?

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,300

    I think that's Melica altissima 'Atropurpurea'



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LoanaLoana Posts: 427

    Oooh excellent nut cutlet, i'll google and see if i can buy one, thank you ?

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,101

    That really is rather splendid isn't it?  I wonder where I could find room ............... I see Beth Chatto sells them http://www.bethchatto.co.uk/grasses/melica/melica-altissima-atropurpurea.htm 

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,645

    I'm not really a fan of grasses but I do like this one and have seeds to sow next spring.   I expect Plant World and Chiltern Seeds stock them too as that's where I usually buy my seeds.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • LoanaLoana Posts: 427

    I found Beth Chatto has it ?

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