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17 January 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.

Many people are familiar with the Greek god Narcissus, who is famous for looking into a pond, seeing his own reflection, and falling in love with it, leading to his own demise of drowning. Fewer people know the name of this god's mother, who was a nymph born of river gods. It is from this spirit of nature that the genus of liriope gets its name.

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.

People who have these plants can expect them to flower around the end of summertime. This is an excellent thing to look forward to as the sweltering hot months come to a close and the chill of autumn starts to creep in. The colors of the flowers are often blue and violet, but there are many more varieties that have been engineered now with the flashiest golds and silvers imaginable.

It is not hard to find a big selection of these types of grasses at most stores and nurseries, or even by shopping online. Since the demand has grown, most people have them in stock and are ready to provide whatever the customer is looking for. Ornamentals are considered any grasses or similar plants that are planted because of their decorative value.

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 ones that go dormant during the cold seasons, so they will essentially take care of themselves during that time. They can then be seen coming back to life in the early springtime thanks to the stored energy that they save up to get them through this dormant period. Most of the ornamentals are perennial, but there are a few such as bamboo that are annual, meaning their whole life cycle is finished in about a year.




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