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This encyclopedia by a distinguished American horticulturist is the most authoritative and best-illustrated reference ever published on ornamental grasses. Rick Darke has been studying and photographing grasses in gardens and native landscapes around the world for more than 20 years, and this book includes the best 500 photographs from his collection of nearly 15,000. At its heart is the illustrated alphabetical encyclopedia of important ornamental grasses, sedges, rushes, restios, cat-tails, and selected bamboos, with many plants illustrated in more than one season. Intended for gardeners in a wide range of situations and climates, this book is an invaluable tool for landscape architects, garden designers, nursery professionals, and home gardeners.
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Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-tails, and Selected Bamboos
Rick Darke
The ornamental grass teaching display at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, provides a glimpse of the varied world of textures, forms, sizes, and colors to be found among the grasses.
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Part title page illustration of zebra grass, Miscanthus sinensis 'Zebrinus', is from a 1909 Storrs and Harrison Company nursery catalog.
Mention of a trademark, proprietary product, or vendor does not constitute a guarantee of warranty of the product by the publisher or author and does not imply its approval to the exclusion of other products or vendors.
Copyright 1999 by Rick Darke. All rights reserved.
Published in 1999 by Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204
Printed in Hong Kong Jacket and text designed by Susan Applegate
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Darke, Rick. The color encyclopedia of ornamental grasses: sedges, rushes, restios, cat-tails, and selected bamboos/Rick Darke. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-88192-464-4 1. Ornamental grassesEncyclopedias. 2. Ornamental grassesPictor ial works. I. Title. SB431.7.D363 1999 635.9'349DC21 98-23440 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
7
Preface
9
Acknowledgments
11
Chapter 1 The Beauty of Grasses
17
Chapter 2 The Families of Grasses and Their Relatives
29
Chapter 3 The Names of Grasses
49
Chapter 4 Learning from Grasses in Native Habitats
57
Chapter 5 Designing with Grasses
73
Chapter 6 Growing and Maintaining Grasses
111
Chapter 7 Encyclopedia of Grasses, Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-tails, and Selected Bamboos
131
Glossary
301
Bibliography
303
Nursery Sources
308
USDA Hardiness Zone Map
310
European Hardiness Zone Map
311
Index of Common Names
312
Index of Botanical Names
317
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Foreword
Grasses are plants that throughout time have greatly benefited the inhabitants of the earth and the land itself. Grasses provide food for our bodies and for our souls. They create food and shelter for many animals. The grain crops have provided sustenance that has allowed civilizations to develop and survive. Grasses are pioneer plants. They are the first to grow in disturbed and destroyed nature. Their diversity in appearance and in growing regions is unequaled. Grasses are found on all continents to the reaches of Antarctica; where nothing else will grow, one will find a grass. And now grasses are finally being recognized for their phenomenal contribution to landscaping. For every niche of our lives there is a grass that harmonizes and further beautifies the space.
Limited use of ornamental grasses in the garden can be traced back to Victorian times. Even in the late fifteenth century, the master painter and nature illustrator Albrecht Drer painted Das Grosse Rasenstck (the large meadow section). His composition depicts fine-textured grasses with broad-leaf plantain and the serrated-leaved dandelion. Columbines are complemented by the gently arching bows of blue meadowgrass. It is a truly inspiring depiction of nature, and an image I have long carried with me.
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