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Panicum ‘Northwind’ vs Panicum ‘Heavy Metal”

echolane
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago

I’ve had Northwind for two years, much tempted into trying it by its 2014 PPA Plant of the Year award. I also wanted to compare it to Panicum ‘Heavy Metal’, a grass I’ve been growing for more than ten years.

I hope I’m not rushing to judgement too quickly, but I am disappointed in Northwind. It lives up to its description of being the narrowest of the Panicum cultivars, displacing Heavy Metal from that position as the narrowest of the Panicums, but I think it is too tightly and rigidly upright for my taste and as such loses all sense of gracefulness. The second thing I don’t much like is that the flowers don’t rise above the foliage, instead they mingle with the tall stems at the same height,

I am going back to my old favorite, Heavy Metal.


This is Heavy Metal



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