Black grape

May 22, 2006

Black grape

Is this an inspired combination or what? Blacker than midnight grape hyacinths and a bronze grass (help me out here people with the Latin name!), set against the backdrop of a lichen-embroidered classic stone urn. I snapped this in the gardens of Somerleyton Hall, Norfolk, also home to a very fine yew maze.

I'd wondered if it would have looked even better with black mondo grass, but maybe that would be overdoing the goth look ...

22 May 2006 22:20:26 | My garden

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Could it be a sedge? I just ordered some carex buchananii and it looks a bit like that, but more upright--I don't know of any other kind of bronzey/brown grasses other than carexes. (Carexes?! That doesn't look right... lol.) I think the mondo grass could have been tucked in on the left of the other grass, now that you mention it...

Posted by: Kim | May 23, 2006 at 03:38 PM

I think this might be Carex flagellifera - Weeping Brown Sedge. You are right they look great together!

Posted by: Chris | May 26, 2006 at 02:48 AM

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