Serendipity

[hendercats]

Husband and I both love decorative grasses and we've bought several kinds over the past few years. He occasionally gets excited about plants and buys things when we have no idea where they're going to go. The year before last he did this with miscanthus grasses and after they'd lived in pots on the patio for a month or more, we picked a spot (

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[zelda_zee]

Wow, that looks great!

[hendercats]

Thanks! I just love the way they look together - it was such a delightful surprise.

[idaardella]

LOVE it! Wow, that was a really great idea.
:)

[hendercats]

Thanks! It was more a desperate move to get them in the ground, lol. ;)

[gottalovev]

they look GORGEOUS! the very dark green of the evergreen makes such a nice contrast!

[hendercats]

Yes, the contrast (color and shapes and ... rigidity?) is exactly what I like about it. Thanks so much!

[katje0711]

That looks really pretty!

[hendercats]

Thanks! We're really happy with the way it's turned out.

[jenthegypsy]

Lovely! I'm a devotee of Ornamental grasses ~ looks like miscanthus sinensis Morning Light, one of my very favorites. The arborvitae look great; in a summer as dry as this one was, that's a grand achievement!

New fence? The whole arrangement is very, very nice! Kudos to Husband for the great instinctive find. :)

[hendercats]

Oh, thank you!! I really wanted to know what particular "flavor" of miscanthus they are. *makes note* We tried to get some more this year, to continue up the line of arborvitae, and they're not quite the same - new ones are a bit less dense and the efflorescences are a touch reddish. The arborvitae really have fared remarkably well this summer - the only one that looks a bit peaked (and he's just outside the pic) is the one we moved in the very early spring.

Fence is neighbor's and yes, was new last summer; he stick-built the thing: Lots and lots of nailing and the bits he cut off are still stacked up at the top of his driveway. Just sank the 4x4s into the ground - no concrete. *rolls eyes* The really bizarre thing is that the chain link fence (which was in place when you were here and which you can just see at the left edge of the photo) is his fence. On his property. We tried to tell him, but he didn't believe us. So now there's a foot wide gap between the chain link and the wood fence. Ridiculous.