These liriopes boast lavender to purple flowers followed by dark purple fruit. White-flowering selections such as shade-loving 'Monroe White' are available too.
Heights range mostly from 10 to 15 inches tall. If you live in the Coastal or Tropical South, try 'Evergreen Giant,' which stretches to 2 feet tall and makes a great substitute for a low shrub. Now is the perfect time to trim your liriope. Mow or cut back foliage to the ground before new shoots emerge. If you do it after the shoots are up, the tips will be snipped blunt, and your liriope will be stuck with a ragged look for a year.
Mondo Equally durable and just as carefree, mondo grass Ophiopogon japonicus likes filtered sun to shade and well-drained soil. Foliage is fine and dark, making it an elegant choice for a formal or small garden. Heights can range from 2 to 12 inches, depending on selection. Ground-hugging, slow-growing 'Gyoku Ryu' is a nice choice for between stepping-stones. Black mondo grass O. Another Way To Simplify If you have a slope or large bed to cover, use creeping liriope Liriope spicata.
You can put a few drops of diluted liquid fertilizer during the early spring, but monkey grass is tough so it is not essential. Once again, you really have it made with monkey grass, as it doesn't need constant attention or fertilizer. Generally, once the grass is planted, you just let it grow.
It does have a few natural enemies: slugs and snails like the foliage and will nibble on it. But they rarely harm the monkey grass. Just remove any that you see, and if they seem to hurt the plant, buy a few slug traps.
Be sure to check after a rainfall, which attracts the little buggers, according to HGTV. Sometimes too much water hurts monkey grass, and can lead to a fungal condition called anthracnose infection. You'll see that the tips of the leaves will turn brown and then yellow. Monkey grass can also get leaf rot, root rot, and crown rot — all due to too much moisture.
This is why it's so essential to plant monkey grass in well-drained soil and to opt out of any device that does overhead watering; instead use a tool that focuses on the roots, such as drip irrigation. Monkey grass comes in several varieties, and there seems to be one for every need. Want a grass that thrives in the shade? Got that. Need heavy clumps of grass so no weeding is required?
Looking for something that creeps all over that empty plot in your backyard? Some believe that monkey grass is toxic to humans and animals. With the invasiveness of some of its varieties that choke out all other plants from the garden, it can seem that monkey grass is a plant not to grapple lightly with.
While some pet owners might say that their cat or dog had a stomachache or vomiting after binging on it, there is reportedly no evidence that shows the plant is poisonous — at least, no more harmful that indulging on too much backyard grass is. It has very similar characteristics as Liriope muscari with the big difference of having a creeping growth habit and it will fill in a large area within a short period of time. It does grow shrter than Monkey grass, only reachong heights of 10 to 15 inches.
It has white to lavendar flowers that rise on flower stalks that reach about 10 inches in length in late summer. It also has varigated varieties.
It grows best in zones 4 to This plant originates form Japan and is an excellent ground cover for shady areas. It will produce a dense mat that is perfect for areas where erosion may be a problem. It also has dwarf varieties that grow only 2 to 3 inches that make an excellent ground cover that can be a substitute for normal turfgrasses. It can grow in shady areas as well as in sunny locations. This grass only grows well in zones 7 through 11, so it is not as versatile as the other ornamental grasses listed above.
Monkey grass, lilyturf or Liriope all have a place in a home landscape.
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