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Plants for mediterranean gardens => Perennials => Topic started by: Daisy on January 27, 2012, 10:09:48 AM

Title: Stipa tenuissima
Post by: Daisy on January 27, 2012, 10:09:48 AM

I have sown some Stipa tenuissima but have found so far, that it is not as happy here as I thought it would be.
Germination has been a little erratic.
The ones that have grown, have become brown over the tips of the leaves during winter.
I am sure (hopeful) that come the spring, they will perk up. 8) 8) 8)
The photos are from my previous garden in Cornwall.
Daisy :)

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/tredonne2006242.jpg)

(http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/ss112/daisyincrete/tredonne2006235.jpg)

Title: Re: Stipa tenuissima
Post by: David Bracey on January 27, 2012, 03:24:15 PM

Look out for the self-sets.  I stopped growing all the Stipas.  The seeds I suspect are wind borne and the new seedlings are always within a metre or two of the host plant.  Stipas are noxious in Australia??

Title: Re: Stipa tenuissima
Post by: ezeiza on January 27, 2012, 07:04:43 PM

I have seen them thriving in a hot very well drained rock garden. Seedlings were found all over the place. Tenuissima is in the genus Nasella now.