Last year I planted purple fountain grasses in a new garden. By late August they started to lean and looked awful. Since they were an annual, I removed them because they weren't looking good from sagging. I also had 2 other perrenial grasses that grown about 7 feet. This year they added another foot and now they are also leaning. They were beautiful last yr, but just grew too high this year. I tried staking them, but now the entire grass leans with the stakes.
If I were to cut them back a bit, before the sagging starts, will they look ugly? I imagine the blades with come to an abrupt stop, rather than thinning out at their tops. If I were to trim them, would the blades stay abrupt, or will they thin out as they grow back...plus will they still bloom come October....or will I basically be butchering it?
Tried to attach a picture, but my pictures (files) are too big to allow me to add it.
Thanks for any help,
Rose
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Means it drop seeds which then sprout on their own the next spring. Often used re annual plants in the sense that this plant doesn't come back from the roots like perennials, but it does come back the next year from seeds it dropped. Can be a good thing for plants you want to come back, but plants that "freely re-seed" can get a bit aggressive.
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