Establishing warm-season grasses requires planning to maximize success and then patience while the grasses become established. They can be planted on a variety of sites, including back yards, crop fields, and pastures. Prairie grasses native to Pennsylvania, they are planted for wildlife habitat, erosion control, and for use as pasture and hay. Warm-season grasses are bunch grasses that grow during the warmest months of the year. Planting warm-season grasses is a good way to replace some of the grassland habitat that has been lost. At present, wildlife scientists are concerned about the decline of many birds associated with grassland and field habitats. With any habitat type, a decline in abundance can also mean a decline in the species dependent on that habitat for survival. Some has happened naturally as the result of succession, the process by which fields eventually grow back to forests. Some of the loss has occurred with suburban and commercial development. Enjoy this lovely native plant, it will be a low maintenance garden plant for you.In Pennsylvania, grassland and other field habitats for wildlife have declined steadily for decades. For biennials and short lived perennials one has to allow that to continually enjoying the plant year after year. For some gardens, slightly weedy plants are nice and they fill in the empty spaces. However, plants can behave differently in different conditions in different gardens and that’s why we experts who have experience that monitor the thresholds of plants that seed around and demonstration gardens around the state that share input on them too. You should see how many fantastic plants didn’t make it into the program because they were deemed a bit weedy. Concerning introducing weeds and gardening with plants that may like to seed around, Plant Select has protocols that are followed through the trialing process. If you plant masses of them you will definitely get more seeding around that you may have to address every 3-4 years, but if you are planting 1 plant you may not see any seedlings for many years. Great questions! You should not have a yearly problem with this plant. Thanks to Shalene Hiller Navant, City of Westminster for this pieceĤ1 responses to “A grass worthy of applause – Standing Ovation little bluestem” Standing Ovation little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Standing Ovation’PP25,202) Standing Ovation grows best in full sun and drier soils and pairs nicely with the prairie native Chocolate flower ( Berlandiera lyrata) and selection of the Mexican native Vermilion Bluffs ® sage ( Salvia darcyi ‘Pscarl’).īrought to Plant Select ® by North Creek Nurseries. This grass keeps its good color through the winter until it is cut to about 3” from the ground in the spring, allowing for fresh new blue foliage to emerge. The bronze cast of the winter foliage looks stunning against a fresh snow. The foliage stands tall through most winters, giving much needed winter interest and texture. The blue and purple summer color changes to spectacular oranges in the fall. ![]() Summer brings on the tall flowering spikes, followed in the fall with fluffy white seed heads that are a good food source for many local birds. During the growing season it has superior bluish green leaves turning to shades of purple at the base. Standing Ovation little blue stem is a clump forming grass, so it does not run and become weedy in the garden. ![]() It remains uniform in the landscape, giving your garden a much cleaner and formal appearance. Standing Ovation was selected for its superior tight, upright habit. Little bluestem is better suited for our high and dry environment than other overused ornamental grasses. It prefers full sun and soil on the dry side. It is a warm season grass, greening later in the spring than your blue grass lawn, but tolerating the heat and drought of the summer better. Little bluestem grass is native to the prairies of North America. ![]() Standing Ovation is a superior selection of our native little bluestem grass. A grass worthy of applause – Standing Ovation little bluestem
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