growing ornamental grass

This might sound dumb but I'm wondering about sowing grass seeds. These grasses grow in clumps, does each clump come from one seed in a season or is it a bunch of seeds together that form the clump?

Also if I split up a clump of grasses that are a year or so old will each small part grow into a larger clump over the course of the year and whens the best time to split the clumps?

thanks

 

Spring is the correct time for splitting up grasses when the roots are beginning to regrow. If done in autumn they do tend to sulk.

 

Oh No!!! :eek: I was hoping to divide a large clump of miscanthus in the autumn. Perhaps I should revise my plans. Mind you, the way the diggings (not) going, the garden probably won't be ready for it til Spring anyway!
Marley - just lurv your maraca playing, banana masquerading dog :D

 

And he's called BRIAN!!! :D :D It just gets better!!!

 

11PM?!! :eek: :eek: There's 2 elevens in a day???? Unforunately, that's well past my bed-time, but looks good so will look for re-runs on Sky.
(sorry- off topic again! Might change my name from Windy to 'off-topic') :D :D

 

We get here as well on Beeb 2, late as well. T'other half likes it, as well as American Dad (think one follows the other?).

... and I haven't got any ornamental grass at the moment, the closest I come to it is my lemon grass! (keeping to the topic)!

 

(Making an effort to get back on topic here!)
I've quite a few grasses, although not all of them are actually in the ground yet! Apart from my faves, miscanthus, I've loads of festucas, blue and amethystina - the blue are gorgeous, real good colour and don't seem to mind my dry, stony soil. Carex comans (my boy calls it the 'dead plant'!), stipa ponytails (still in pots, not doing much), uncinia rubra (good red colour)and I've just ordered some melica 'red spires' - thought they'd look good with the miscanthus and cotinus(?!) If I could just finish the digging, seems to be never ending!

 

Hello ladies and gents,
any knowledge of a website with real good pics of ornamental grasses and bamboos please? I want to impress some potential clients with top pics, you see...

By the way Marley, I would be copyrighting BRIAN if I were you before the BananaMan gets his hands on it!

 

Look at this catalogue
http://www.knollgardens.co.uk/

 

Lovely Palustris, thanks indeed for the link!
Kind regards
Roy

 

Can anyone recommend an orange or deep red coloured grass. Preferably not hugely tall.

 

Uncinia rubra is red and about 2 feet tall at most.