Grass Plant: What are the Benefits?

Do you want to add beauty, grace and soothing sound effect in your backyard or garden? Or maybe you want to enhance your garden with beautiful plants that require little maintenance? Regardless what your reasons are, I recommend you to go for grass plants. There is a wide choice of grass plants available on the Australian market. In order to help you choose the right grass plant that will match both your space and gardening style, I have compiled a list of five grass types you can’t go wrong with:

Red Fountain Grass (Pennisetum ruburm)

This is grass plant grows pretty fast and you can enjoy its beauty even in winter. The main advantage of this plant is the easy maintenance. Thisngrass can thrive in places where other plants can’t, such as areas that are exposed to sunlight for most of the day and in soil with medium drainage. Moreover, this plant doesn’t require daily watering. It will thrive with minimum amounts of water added. This is what will help you conserve water in the garden and save time on watering.

Blue Fax Lily (Dianella Caerulea)

This is the perfect plant to add in full sun areas with fast-draining soil. The strap like leafs and small blue star-shaped flowers make a combination that adds a great aesthetic effect to any outdoor space. This plant works great in many combination with other types of grass or flowers.

Tanika (Lomandra Longifolia)

If you want to cover some uneven surface in your landscape, then the Tanika grass plant is the right choice for you. The features that make this plant a unique addition to any space include light-green leaf colour and unique yellow flowers. However, the great aesthetic appeal doesn’t come at great cost. What I mean is, you don’t have to dedicate a big amount of time on watering and pruning the Tanika plant. Strong heat resistance is yet another advantage of this type of grass. The high summer temperatures can do nothing to their beautiful leafs and flowers.

Matt Rush (Lomandra ‘Seascape‘)

The so-called mat rush can be the perfect choice for your creative ideas – you can use either its fresh or dried flowers to make great flower arrangements that will last you long time. This plant can thrive in both sunny or shady corners of your garden. The blue-grey foliage will add unique aesthetic appeal to any kind of surroundings.

Lime Tuff Mat Rush (Lomandra ‘Lime Tuff’)

If the space in your backyard or garden is limited, the best grass type you can add is the popularly known lime tuff mat rush. This is a very flexible plant that thrives in all sorts of conditions or more specifically in different soil types, levels of un exposure and temperature fluctuations. With little time and effort dedicated to the lime tuff mush, you can enjoy in the beauty of its fine lime leaves and fragrant yellowish flowers.