Besides admiring flowers, you can also admire grasses - get to know ornamental grasses

As the rural garden style grows increasingly popular, some "weeds" with special ornamental effects have successfully caught the attention of garden designers. Through careful domestication and selective breeding, these grasses have begun to appear more and more as "ornamental grasses" in private gardens.

Ornamental grasses are a fairly large plant group, and their ornamental value usually shows in many aspects such as form, color and texture. Their forms are very suitable for creating landscapes with a natural, wild charm, and since they have low requirements for growing conditions and are easy to plant, they are increasingly loved by people.

The use of ornamental grasses abroad can be traced back as early as the Victorian era, when they were not used in landscape design, but were depicted by painters in their paintings.

Later, because of their natural style full of wild charm, ornamental grasses were widely used in Western gardens, and in European and American horticultural circles people call them Ornamentalgrass.

In recent years, with the prosperity of our country's economy and the improvement of people's aesthetic tastes, ornamental grasses have quietly "settled down" in some parks and green spaces. Such as Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus', Carex oshimensis 'Evergold', Cyperus alternifolius, Cortaderia selloana 'Pumila' and Stipa tenuissima.

Because these "weeds" have advantages that other ornamental plants do not have, they are highly favored by landscape designers and garden enthusiasts.

As long as they are arranged properly, the different forms, colors and height differences of ornamental grasses will make the plant layers in the garden richer, while also giving people a feeling of unrestraint and freedom.

They are usually placed at the edges of flower borders, making the transition of plants more natural and the boundaries between plant species less rigid.

Some ornamental grasses can even change color with the seasons, from light green in spring to golden yellow in winter, greatly enriching the landscape colors.

Even in winter, ornamental grasses do not wither like flowers. The posture of these ornamental grasses braving frost and snow has a more artistic mood than any plant landscape.

If you can wander alone among the ornamental grasses, quiet your restless mind, and feel this natural scenery, that unique "wild charm" in nature can probably only be experienced by being there!

When designing your own garden, you might as well apply ornamental grasses to the plant arrangement, or make a separate "grass border", and the garden will also have a unique beauty.