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Miscanthus “Silberfeder.” For a large, inexpensive privacy screen look for Miscanthus floridus, sometimes sold as Miscanthus gigantis. It can grow 8 to 10 feet tall. If you have a green shade ...
ORNAMENTAL grasses come into their own at this time of year and miscanthus is among the best ... Good varieties include M. sinensis 'Silberfeder'.and 'Grosse Fontaine', also known as 'Big Fountain ...
Silberfeder' (one of the few pre-Pagels cultivars ... is an Austrian entry called 'Gold und Silber', a shorter, delicate miscanthus with warm, coppery brown plumes. I'm sure it will be coming ...
Silberfeder, Ferner Osten and so on the chances are they were bred by Pagels. The way to use all grasses is as a component in a planting, rather than as ‘special cases’ in monoculture plantings, and ...
Queen of Spades, Rosemary Bailey of Bristol is, with great difficulty, trying to lift and divide a Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberfeder’ that has become too big for its boots. I sympathise ...
"The purpose of this farm is to turn grass into cash," he says. Caveny stands in a plot of miscanthus, a perennial grass that by summer's end will grow about 12 feet tall and has the potential to ...
In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuels sources -- by a lot.
A team of investigators have found that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuel sources. Using Miscanthus as a feedstock for ethanol production in the U.S ...
Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) has been trialed across the United States. Miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus) has been studied throughout the European Union. Both show great promise, but until now ...
This week, two UI-owned fields of giant miscanthus are being harvested to supply the UI with another year of partially renewable fuel. Miscanthus is a 12-foot tall bamboo-like grass blended with coal ...
AMES, Iowa – Miscanthus, a perennial grass with vast potential to produce biomass, would deliver even better yields than once thought in Iowa, according to research by agronomists at Iowa State ...