A lady I was working for gave us about a thousand green Mondo grass plants and about a hundred black Mondo grasses. She also gave me this beautiful tree, but I have to move it this winter.I ordered planting flats and baskets from a nursery supply store so that we can break the grasses up and flat them for the winter. Eventually these will be planted as plugs and will fill in pretty quickly if the conditions are good.
The green Mondo grass plants grow about two inches tall and exceptionally thick so they tend to choke out unwanted guest plants. They look like lawn, but without the mowing. I don't know how much foot traffic they might bear . . .
The black Mondo grasses grown about nine inches tall and need a bit of tending once or twice a year, but they are a nice grass to soften borders between high and low plantings, and the color is good for defining transitions. They also have a nice little purple flower too.
We heal the grasses in our front yard garden in North Plains. Most did well. but a lot of them died off. None made the move to Creekside Farm. The tree eventually found its way to the rotunda planter in North Plains. Probably sold the house for us.
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