…rushes are round, and grasses have knees that bend down to the ground.’  There are other versions of this wee ditty that I was reminded of the other day and as usual there are the odd exceptions to that rule.  It may not have been the best day to take photographs of my garden grasses as it was a bit breezy.  Hey ho.  Grasses can really tie a garden together and make it all look very natural and can soften areas.  Eve the lightest breeze brings movement and gentle sound to the garden.  I can’t identify half the grasses I have but I try to take care to chop off the seed heads before they spread over the rest of the garden.  Especially the ones covering the logs in my woodland area.  The Briza media (quaking grass) is on the patio and the flowers turn a lovely straw colour and gently nod in the slightest breeze.  The Carex pendula I have in pots in various places, some shady and some sunny and it copes well everywhere.  There is a variety of grasses in and around the pond.  In the chimney pot in the background is a Carex comans Bronze which will hang down over the edges of the pot.   There is some kind of Juncus (rush) on the right hand side of the pond in the run-off boggy area, spouting up in the middle of the Acorus Ogori (Golden Japanese rush.  In the pond is Eleocharis (hair grass) and Eriophorum Angustifolium  – may also be know as Scirpus I think (cotton grass or bog cotton).  And I have no idea what the grasses are on the log.

Briza media (quaking grass)

Carex pendula (sedge)

grasses and rush

grassy log