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Fuzzy, Out of Focus Garden

10 years ago

Hello

There are plants and trees that look "out of focus" when you look at them. Some connifers do this due to their needle foliage, but some grasses and other plants with fine foliage do it too.

I'm (seriously) looking to create a garden, or a part of our existing garden, using plants that do this. Literally a "fuzzy, out of focus garden."

This has proved difficult to search on, across the internet.

A visual example of kind of what I am talking about:
http://365project.org/fotofella/365/2013-09-19

Also wispy foliage (I think it might be seed related in this image):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mswebersd/3692151286/

One post I found here on GardenWeb (the US side), was this one:
Wooly and fluffy plants
This one has an excellent list of latin plant names
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/calif/msg0412463626920.html?28

Also this one has a great list:
Tall Fluffy Plants
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/cottage/msg051709572536.html

Unfortunately, I looked up images of pretty much all of the ones kindly supplied in these lists, and none have this "effect".

I believe some "Fountain Grasses" may exhibit this optical illusion? Up the top of a mountain near here we found a row of grass with fuzzy tops that did exactly this, and was the straw that broke the camels back and persuaded me to do this project. However, like an idiot, I didn't get a photograph.

The problem is that there is just no way to search for this effect and link it to names of plants. I've tried - if you find a way to do this please let me know!

Can anyone make any suggestions of plant names to get me kick-started?

Best regs

This post was edited by TreesHugMe on Tue, Feb 25, 14 at 22:56

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