Star grass

A slow start, but I have now planted up the Calabert bed.   As the eragrostis curvula proved to be the star ornamental grass last season, it wins the prize position of the calabert bed.   When you walk from the house and look towards the rest of the garden, this is the main feature that catches your eye.   It sweeps in a curve and mirrors the curve of Alice’s path that skirts the mirabelle trees and leads on to the swimming pool.

Hard to explain. The picture makes more sense.   I had also planted gaura behind the grasses, abutting the little rock wall.   And as I was planting I noticed that there are teensy weensy buds poking through the corpses of last year’s growth.   I had hoped to bulk up this small gaura start with lots of cuttings taken last autumn.   But the poor plants were ravaged by the cold winter in the potting shed.   So it won’t be the dense growth I was hoping for.   Not this year anyway.   And here’s hoping that the eragrostis – African lovegrass – will be dramatic and do the visual trick.