Stipa gigantia in the evening light
I’m happy to say that Stipa gigantia is setting seed and there are now several plants in the garden, I love them and will put one of the new plants in the border we look at from the terrace, it should be the perfect centre piece with the evening light streaming through it. It is a grass that needs to be back lit.
A quick reminder that Sunday is GBFD, I do hope you’ll all join in this month.
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Me too, Christina. Smashing plant – even if voles love to burrow right into their heart.
Do they? I might have voles, I saw one once.
I’m still looking for a good place to plant one where it will be backlit as we view it from the house. It’s proving difficult! Such a lovely grass though. Harlow Carr have it planted en masse and it looks amazing.
It is a fabulous grass and as long it is subjected to very strong winds it remains looking good for a long time, definitely worth the space.
I love when plants volunteer to help us redesign our gardens….I promise that I will pop in on Monday for GBFD as I am away this weekend….I can link in on Monday.
Have a lovely weekend Donna
We grow this too – just two clumps in a very sunny spot make a good display each year. Thanks for the reminder about Foliage Day!
It is a spectacular grass; look forward to your GBFD post.
Hi Christina is the Gigantia Stipa gold color with the sun. It must be wonderful to see rocks with sunlight, golden, at sunset. I love it. I had never seen this plant and I find it beautiful. Greetings from Margarita.
I’m sure it would grow well where you live Margarita.
Thank you for your recommendation if I find Christina seed plant it next year. And already the right place. Greetings from Margarita.
A beautiful grass. Just how gigantic is it?
The flowering stems are about 6 foot.
Wow, my kind of plant!
Quite a nice photo capturing the sunlit colors.
It’s a graceful plant, Christina. Oddly, I never see it in the local nurseries, although our zone is appropriate for it.
It would look fabulous in your garden with the bay behind it!
I am looking forward to the grasses I put in last year performing – and perhaps setting seed in due course! Most don’t seem in a rush to establish 😐
Stipa gigantia takes a few years to put out a lot of flowering stems but even the single stems of a young plant look lovely.
How wonderful to see the newly emerging flowering stems showcased, I love watching them shimmer in the soft spring light. Stipa seedlings are a source of great joy here too, it’s always a thrill to know that a choice plant is happily at home.
The grass itself is also a good ground cover so I may put some on the slope too.
Such a good point and, regarding grasses in general, often overlooked.
A fabulous plant Christina. I’ve not had any joy establishing it in the garden but have got a mature plant at the allotment 🙂 Only drawback is that I rarely see it in the evenings.
I think it looks wonderful at any tin of day.
Sadly it’s too windy where I live to plant this grass. But we do have anemanthele or pheasants tail grass which does thrive in windswept gardens and looks glorious backlit, and with frost in winter too. I love your photos of stipa grass though.
I did have an anemanthele but it didn’t last, maybe it is too hot for it here.
I have a great many voles(there are never enough barn owls to catch them ),but my Stipa Gigantea flowers very year. It is a beautiful plant.
That’s good news, thank you Linda.
Really lovely–and huge!! The photo was perfection.
Thanks Tina
Is the Stipa native to your area? Here, our native Stipa is tenuissima.
Yes it is native to southern Europe. I also grow tenuissima; they like similar conditions.
Beautiful with the light behind. I love this plant but only saw it available once here… of course it was already sold out by the time I put my order together 🙂
I agree it is a lovely grass. I planted two of them last year and can’t wait for them to grow big enough to have seed heads.