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Stipa tenuissima

B3B3 Posts: 27,015
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My Stipa tenuissima got hammered flat in the spring storms.

As I've never grown them before, I was wondering if, under normal circumstances, their shape is a circular fountain of hairy loveliness or do they normally lean to one side like a trump combover on a bad hair day? If this is so, I'll move them to where they can get a bit of support.

In London. Keen but lazy.

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,263

    B3 - that is so funny! I just had to make a comment but I don't know too much about Stipa except it always looks beautiful

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,359

     comb over mostly. If conditions are perfect, great. But conditions are rarely perfect. 

    Last edited: 29 July 2016 20:28:36



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

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    See? Beautiful as LB says.

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,359

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    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,263

    image

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_IqXyVO8E

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,015

    Verdun mine look somewhat like the picture above but longer. Do you mean that I should place them like #we three drunken maidens# so that they can support each other?.

    I followed your advice last year but overplanted assuming I'd lose stuff. Everything has thrived and I think I'm going to be in trouble next year. Hope you will allow me to bend your ear when the time comes to divide things  - whenever that isimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,015

    http://www.christymoore.com/lyrics/three-drunken-maidens/

    Last edited: 29 July 2016 23:03:07

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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