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Ornamental grasses for clay soil.
Best plants for problem clay soils.
Clay soil is one of the most difficult conditions a gardener can face.
It offers wispy seedheads that sway gracefully in the breeze.
Make sure to plant it in full sun.
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Most prefer full sun and well drained soils.
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Feather reed grass calamagrostis x acutiflora karl foerster tolerates clay and one of the easiest to grow.
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Ornamental grasses can add year round beauty to the flower garden and landscape.
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Annuals bulbs needled evergreens ornamental grasses the perfect garden soil is well drained but moisture retentive loose enough to dig easily and rich in organic material and mineral elements plants need to grow well.
Though they can tolerate partial shade the flowering will be stunted making the plants leggy.
Clay has slow drainage but holds nutrients well.
It tolerates a wide range of soils including dry ones but prefers moist sandy or clay soils.
It s wet and dense and it can bake as solid as a brick in the sun.
There are grasses for damp or dry soil shady as well as sunny situations.
The ornamental grasses send roots throughout these planting holes much faster than through the native soil although the roots will spread through the surrounding clay soil in time.
Choosing plants to grow in clay soil takes some discretion.
Salvia likes it hot.
This perennial will tolerate clay soil but doesn t like its roots to stay wet for too long.
Among the most versatile of ornamental grasses switchgrass thrives in moist dry or clay soil and even in part shade.
Tends to flop in rich soils.
It offers wispy seedheads that sway gracefully in the breeze.
Several colorful cultivars are available.
They grow in any type of soil and are not picky bloomers.
Grows primarily in clumps but may naturalize by rhizomes as well as self seeding to form sizable colonies.
I can go farther between occasional waterings.
Let the soil dry out a bit between each time you water it rather than keeping it wet all the time.
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This leaves little room for air and water movement for plants.
Whether they soil is fertile or poor ornamental grasses will grow.
Many are ideal for gravel gardens prairie planting wildlife gardens and are great to add to the cutting garden.
Generally best in full sun.