Island Bed

It looks lovely Dawn ,is that the Miscanthus at the back there ? if it is it's grown brilliantly :o)

Thanks Amy. Yes, that is your Miscanthus, huge now, thank you x

Very nice bed, which Miscanthus is it? we might have to move if it is the same as ours lol

Amy, which one is ot lol x

It's Miscanthus x Giganteus Dawn , it's grown in this area to use as fuel for power stations , when it dies down we save the canes for staking up plants in the garden , Tony made a fence out of them once they are quite hardy ... x

Thanks Amy .... there you go Dotty.

Wow, I'll keep the canes this year then, thanks for that. Will the clump keep spreading then Amy?

Phew that was lucky.......no we dont have it!! not surprised it is used for fuel.

I have a smaller one with a white stripe down the leaves, that's quite dainty compared to this one, both nice though.

We need fuel for our wood burner, hmmmmm

Wow a very impressive bed, I love the Miscanthus but Im afraid it would be too large for my garden;0)

That looks lovely , Dawn .
Amy sent a miscanthus for me , but it didn't survive , I'll have to beg another one !

Yes it will keep spreading Dawn ,you have the room Lol :o)) I'll send you another plant Julia when it dies down later in the season !

Hi Amy, brilliant I'll divide it up and spread around.

We split a plant and threw some old roots over in the next field Dawn and guess what it's grown a good tall plant in there !! I'll rescue some for Julia ....

Hi , Amy , thanks for that .
I nosy-ed in on Dawn's blog .

Wow Amy, have you tried burning any on the stove?

Good or bad , Dawn , or just asking ?

Hi Driad, good haha, just that Amy and I have wood burning stoves and Amy says its used for power station fuel. Sounds good for an alternaive to bamboo canes too.

Well , it's used in some power stations to produce electricity so it ought to be OK , Dawn .

I haven't tried burning it Dawn It might be a good experiment to see how long it burnt for , we had a fire last night it was lovely and wasn't long before we were stripping our jumpers off :o))

We'll have to try it Amy. We've had the stove lit each night this week, just ticking over nicely.

Lol, as long as only jumpers came off. ;-)

You two !

Ha ha Driad

Ooh Dawn you haven't been spying have you LOL :o))

;-)