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Blood Grass with Drift roses?

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Posted by Ibanez540r New 6 - OH (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 27, 12 at 20:53

So I fell in love with Japanese blood grass after seeing it in the entrance of a new shopping center. I have two bare spots that need finished of a new bed I made in spring. I definitely want to put a group of the japanese blood grass in there but also want something flowering. I have knockouts in another portion of the bed and thought maybe a drift rose with the blood grass?

I'm 50/50 on whether this is a good or bad combination.

Any other non-rose suggestions? The bed currently has arborvitaes along the fence with clematis between them. A forest pansy red-bud tree, knockout roses (red), walkers low catmint, purple daylillies, and some firewitch dianthis. The bed is a combination of river rock and mulch.

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RE: Blood Grass with Drift roses?

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sounds rather nice (I had imperata but have it no longer). Have been down the roses and grasses route myself, only getting fed up after grovelling underneath procumbent roses pulling out creeping grass....and blood grass certainly creeps, if not actually races to total ground domination. a neat little hook sedge, uncinia rubra, mught fit the bill more than the imperata but you'll never know till you try.

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