Thursday, January 11, 2018

The Benefits Of Ornamental And Liriope Grass

By Nancy Mitchell


So many people are choosing to use liriope to make their yard beautiful. This is a very popular genus of plant that has a way of keeping low to the ground, looks like a lot of other grasses, and has flowers that bloom on it at a certain time of the year. It is from South and Southeast Asia that this plant originates from, and is just one of the many types of ornamental and liriope grass that people are using to add beauty to their garden.

This plant gets its name from Greek mythology. A nymph with this same name was said to have given birth to the god Narcissus. It may have been simply the beautiful nature of this fairy that caused her name to be used for this plant.

There are many different ways that people pronounce the name liriope, but most people who know their plants will be able to understand what it is no matter how it is said. A lot of people like to call it lilyturf because of the flowers that bloom on the plant, but they are technically not in the same family as lilies or grasses. Monkey or spider grass are two other common names for it.

It is in the late summer that the flowers of these plants start to appear and open up. They are usually small in size and violet or blue in color, sometimes a combination of the two. There are also new varieties of these plants that have more flashy color patterns for situations in which there is a lot of shade passing over a yard or garden.

It is not hard to go online or to a local nursery for plants and find these types of grasses available. Their popularity has grown in recent years all over the world. This is because people are starting to realize just how practical and beautiful these plants are.

It can be very hard to keep plants alive in a garden or yard when the weather is just too cold to support most types of plant life. That is why people who live in these types of climates are very enticed when they hear that ornamentals are among the hardier of plants like this. They can survive the cold seasons and even in regions that stay cold all the time.

Although they are referred to as grasses, these plants are often not even in the same family as ordinary types of grasses. The reason why so many people refer to them this way is because they have similar physical properties to the common plant. Prime examples of these are cat-tails, rushes, and sedges.

Perennial plants are known as the ones that don't stay active year-round. Rather, they store up energy for a dormant period in the fall and winter so that they can come back to life again in the early spring. This is how most plants that are considered ornamentals work, with a few exception of ones that are annuals, meaning they live for a year and then complete their life cycle.




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