Using ornamental grasses to enhance one's garden, has become a growing trend both locally and internationally.

Whether you have a small townhouse garden, with only three groups of grass, or you have a large garden with mass plantings of thirty to fifty varieties of grass, the effect and allure is the same.

Also it doesn't matter if you have a minimalist, indigenous, French-, English- or Mediterranean-style garden, a grouping of different grass types will enhance and blend in perfectly with your home and landscape.

This is where colour, in the form of low and tall perennials, planted amongst the grass plantings to break the possible hardness comes in.

Try planting a group of the same colour perennials amongst your grass plantings (perennials like Gaura, bearded Irises, Coreopsis,Campanula,Rudbeckia, Cherianthus, Limonium and Astilbes).

You would like the height of your newly introduced colour 'grass breakers' to be just under a metre.

Depending upon their habits of growth and water conditions, they will be planted in groups of three to a dozen or more. The smaller borders would naturally have smaller groups. In all cases the groups should be large enough to be visible from a distance.

Grass Favourites:

• Carex comans 'Frosted Curls'


• Carex comans Bronze


• Festuca glauca 'Silver Eyecatch' ? Blue fescue


• Liriope muscari 'Silver Ribbon' ? Lilyturf variety


• Liriope muscari 'Evergreen Giant' ? Lilyturf variety


• Ophiopogon jaburan ? Mondo Grass variety


• Ophiopogon japonicus 'Kyoto' ? Mondo Grass variety