Panicum 'Shenandoah' is one of my favorite grasses - medium height, pretty delicate flower heads, and doesn't flop at all. Mixes well with many medium height perennials. Doesn't get much color in the shadier locations though. Other tall grasses that grow upright for me - Miscanthus 'Gracillimus', Miscanthus purpurascens, Calamagrostis Karl foerster and Overdam, other Panicum virgatum cultivars (Heavy Metal, Rostahlbusch). Panicum 'Cloud Nine' is very tall and flopped a little, perhaps because it was growing in partial shade.

It might have been Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster'? Lots of people in NM grow it. Its not at its best here in zone 7 due to our extreme heat in summer, I had to remove mine. All of the Calamagrostis varieties are cool season (I think) I had also tried the Korean Feather Grass but it did badly in summer here too. A waste of money. I notice SRG added a note that it does badly in Texas, Nevada and Oklahoma. This is true. These are warm season but I like the Texas Muhly grasses -----All of them----- and with one exception of one that is only winter hardy to zone 8, they do very well here so I am happy about that. I like them better than any of the Calamagrostis and they bloom very early in summer. Cool Season: Blue Fescue does well here if its in shade and summer and kept dry. I have an area that gets full sun in winter, spring and fall but is shade in summer and dry so it will do well there. It likes cooler temps but so far its done well in that spot. I'm planting seed for more. Koeleria glauca (Blue Hair Grass) in another area that I'm planting more seed of too to make a mass planting. Its a cute little tuft grass and does really well. Mexican Feather Grass is another, I am sure you see that everywhere there. Its a self seeding one but I love it and use a lot of it here. Purple Three Awn is another, its a lot like Mexican Feather Grass with fine blades and same height and it blooms purple in spring, these turn nearly white and then it blooms again in fall so its in bloom all season. I am going to order Sesleria autumnalis from SRG and I am also ordering Juncus inflexus 'Blue Arrow' and Juncus pallidus 'Javelin' they carry. I have some kind of wild juncus thats so cute that I found out in the country. Its about 4" tall, unbelievably fine blade with tiny brown seeds on top. Its doing so well that I decided to get a couple of the big ones. Another cool season grass I was considering for part shade was Deschampsia cespitosa but I backed off of it, I don't think it will do well with the many 100+ days we have in summer and its probably too dry here as well, Its a very pretty cool season grass with ethereal seed heads, your nights are cooler I imagine, it might make a difference.

1) Tracy #4/#12/#1/#4/#6/#12/#2 2) Sassy #5/#3/#5/#10 3) Carmen DONE! (wins Box #9) 4) Karen #2/#5 5) Pat #8 6) Lisa DONE! (wins Box #3) 7) Priscilla #4/#13 8) Deb #5/#9/#12/#9/#5/#12/ 9) Denise #3/#5/#3/#12/#5/#2 10) Vic #13/#11 11) Shirley #4/#12/#4 12) Fran #1 13) Alana#6/ Apparently, I was wrong on a couple of these numbers yesterday, but I wasn't sure where that was. Does someone who understood it want to make the corrections for me? Tks.

Karen, Thank you for helping me look! I'm looking it up right now, and... argh! It is so close! 'Elizabeth Francis Woodall' has black tips on the stamens while mine seem a brownish/orange and a EFW has a very light yellow edging to the ruffles. The rest of the coloring is dead on. Going to check out 'Broadway Pink Slippers' and... that is much pinker than mine. Thank you for the name of that daylily nursery. I'll keep looking through their dl's. What a great assortment! Alana, I love baby shops. When Gymboree opened here I was having a blast picking up little outfits for my daughter and niece. Love that girly stuff. I hope things go quickly for you in Dayhoit. Never heard of it either. Thanks be for Google, eh? It has helped me get in and out of places that were too small for most gas station maps. Hurry home and keep an eye on these thieves. Hey Vic! We have rentals here in Cleveland and Lakewood. One is our old house that we used to live in. The guys are usually late with the check and it takes a phone call or two. Once they switched to new cell phones and I did have to drive over there. Nothing like me showing up with a van full of kids to make them want to get that check there a little quicker. Want me to drive to Michigan. Shouldn't be more than a couple hours. I'll threaten them with having to babysit. That might do it. I'm sorry about what happened with Jamie's job. Ed's customers are pretty slow paying right now. I told him he better start getting some money up front. It drives me crazy when he floats the cost of materials and they take forever to pay him at the end of the job. He is finally starting to listen to me about it. Deb, I think no one wants the game to end. They all know it's over when your box gets grabbed. LOL! Does the garage sale start tomorrow? I hope you have a great turn out and the weather stays beautiful for it. Sweet Dreams! Nighty night Sassy, sweet dreams to you too.