{"id":1233,"date":"2012-02-21T21:25:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T04:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2012-03-15T17:38:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T00:38:12","slug":"pruning-ornamental-grasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/pruning-ornamental-grasses\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruning Ornamental Grasses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use a lot of ornamental grasses in our landscapes. They fit very well in a number of design styles and are\u00a0 fairly low maintenance and low water use. We typically prefer evergreen grasses for their year round appeal, but even those grasses that don&#8217;t go deciduous can benefit from a pruning (haircut) every year or two. This article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/ucanr.org\/sites\/scmg\/2010_Feature_Articles\/Pruning_Ornamental_Grasses\/\">Sonoma County Master Gardeners<\/a> gives a good overview on pruning some common grasses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of our Favorite Grasses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Evergreen:<\/strong> Blue Fescue, Deer Grass, Evergreen Miscanthus, Autumn Moor Grass, Berkeley Sedge<br \/>\n<strong>Deciduous:<\/strong> Purple Fountain Grass, Little Bunny Fountain Grass, Miscanthus<br \/>\n<strong>Grass-like:<\/strong> New Zealand Flax: Yellow Wave, Jack Spratt, and Tom Thumb among other more compact grass like varieties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use a lot of ornamental grasses in our landscapes. They fit very well in a number of design styles and are\u00a0 fairly low maintenance and low water use. We typically prefer evergreen grasses for their year round appeal, but even those grasses that don&#8217;t go deciduous can benefit from a pruning (haircut) every year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/pruning-ornamental-grasses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pruning Ornamental Grasses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oclandscape.com\/ocblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}