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Ornamental grasses at Bluestem Nursery - Andropogon, Carex flagellifera, Miscanthus, Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster', Calamagrostis 'Overdam', Achnatherum
Jim Brockmeyer



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Ornamental Grasses and Willows
Mail Order & Wholesale Plants


Hi, my name is Jim Brockmeyer. Some of you may know of me from my mail order catalogue, or perhaps have seen one of my slide presentations.

We are well on our way to including a picture of each of our ornamental grasses and willows. We continually add more images. I hope you enjoy looking at the photos as much as I have enjoyed taking them. Perhaps you too will be inspired to include some of our low maintenance plants in your gardening projects.

In 2010 we have 117 ornamental grasses, 52 varieties of willows and 18 perennials, 8 of which are sedums for planting on green roofs.

If you are having a difficult time trying to decide which ornamental grasses to choose for your garden, a great place to start is with our Grass Comparison Chart and / or the Landscape Uses page. The latter is available for willows as well. There we have all the grasses listed, with brief information about each one. You can easily compare them to each other for height, bloom time, hardiness, drought tolerance, preferred conditions, etc. We will also soon have a printable Selection Guide available. Watch for it to be in the What's New column on the right, as well as a link to it on our Landscape Uses page. It will contain the same info as the Landscape Uses page, but in a different format, and the grasses will be individually listed. (Note: this may not be ready this year).

Thanks,
Jim B.

Pictures of a hedge of ornamental grasses
hedge of Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster'

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What's New at Bluestem Nursery?


Bluestem Art, a website that sells photos of grasses and willows that Jim's brother Frank has taken, would like to announce the following:


new grasses for 2010:


We now have a blog. There is a link to it from every page of this website, either at the top or the bottom of the pages. At this point in time I think it will be used mainly for pictures and a few newsworthy items.

the info regarding how to obtain our catalogue is available on this webpage.

new book by John Greenlee:



Green Roofs

Ever thought of growing plants on the roof of your home or office building?

We have some interesting information on the subject on our Green Roof page.


Nomenclature

The source used for nomenclature for both ornamental grasses and willows is:

"List of Names of Perennials and of Woody Plants", published by Boomteeltpraktijkonderzoek, Applied Research for Nursery Stock, the Netherlands, 2000.

 


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