Lower South
September, 2005
Regional Report
Web Finds
Air Layering How-To
Air Layering for Difficult-to-Root Plants is a Web site from Texas A&M Extension that provides easy instructions on air layering with good visuals to make the procedure even easier to understand. Give it a try and you'll soon been running around looking for plants to air layer!
Favorite or New Plant
Dwarf Fountain Grass
Ornamental grasses add a simple beauty to the landscape. Some provide attractive seed heads as an added bonus. Dwarf fountain grass (Pennisetum alopecuroides) makes an attractive clumping grass that at 2-1/2 feet tall and wide is compact enough for many landscape locations. In fall, white fluffy seed heads appear to decorate the mounded plants. Fountain grass needs moist soil and plenty of sunlight.
