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Posted on April 25, 2014 by jmarkowski Posted in Podcasts .

My second podcast with Shannon Currey, head of sales and marketing at Hoffman Nursery in North Carolina, is in the books and it is loaded with incredible information on all aspects of ornamental grasses. I personally guarantee you will purchase at least one of these grasses within 24 hours of listening to the podcast.  

Don’t hesitate and listen to it here.

Shannon provides her thoughts on the very best grasses out in the market today. After listening to this “OG Aficionado”, come back here and reference the listing below which include all of the grasses she recommends.

Each of the grasses listed below link out to photos and a detailed description on the Hoffman Nursery website.

Enjoy and “Go Grasses”!       

Best cool season grasses:

Nassella tenuissima – Mexican Feather Grass

Deschampia cespitosa – Tufted Hair Grass

Helichtotrichon sempervirens ‘Sapphire’ – Blue Oat Grass

Arrhenatherum elatius subsp. ‘Varieagatum’ – Striped Tuber Oat Grass

Best warm season grasses:

Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’ – Red Switchgrass

Panicum virgatum ‘Northwind’ – Upright Switchgrass

Sporobolus heterolepis – Prairie Dropseed

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Morning Light’ – Variegated Maiden Grass

Best partial shade/full shade grasses:

Deschampia cespitosa – Tufted Hair Grass

Hakonechloa macra – Hakone Grass

Calamagrostis brachytricha – Korean Feather Reed Grass

Sesleria autumnalis – Autumn Moor Grass

Best newly introduced grasses:

Andropogon gerardii ‘Red October’ – Big Bluestem

Schizachyrium scoparium ‘ Standing Ovation’ – Upright Little Bluestem

Sporobulus heterolepis ‘Tara’ – Dwarf Prairie Dropseed

Carex oshimensis ‘Everillo’ – Everillo Sedge

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