{"id":9122,"date":"2016-10-04T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=9122"},"modified":"2016-10-03T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:24:27","slug":"blue-lyme-grass-adapts-to-almost-any-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2016\/10\/04\/blue-lyme-grass-adapts-to-almost-any-surroundings\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Lyme Grass Adapts To Almost Any Surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9126\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Leymus-arenarius-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9126\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9126\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9126\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Leymus-arenarius-2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Leymus arenarus planted at Atlanta Botanical Gardens\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Leymus-arenarius-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Leymus-arenarius-2-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Leymus-arenarius-2-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leymus arenarus planted at Atlanta Botanical Gardens<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Blue Lyme Grass<\/strong> (<em>Leymus arenarus <\/em>\u2018Blue Dune\u2019) is a vigorous spreading cool season grass\u00a0(USDA Hardiness zones 3-9).\u00a0It\u00a0is native to the coasts of northern and western Europe. A closely related species,\u00a0<i>L. mollis,<\/i>\u00a0is native to the northern coasts of North America.<\/p>\n<p>Blue lyme grass\u00a0is a stand out because of\u00a0its beautiful steel-blue foliage. Atlanta Botanical Gardens has\u00a0sited it in woodland setting under \u00a0filtered sunlight while the Dallas Arboretum grows it under full hot Texas sun.\u00a0It will rapidly fill\u00a0in hot arid places such as near hot concrete walkways and driveways.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Blue Dune\u2019 is a standout selection with steel blue foliage. Clumps\u00a0average 2 &#8211; 3 feet high and spread. In mid-summer arching powder blue flower spikes (inflorescences) emerge.\u00a0Some gardeners may opt to remove the flowers to accent foliage only.\u00a0It\u00a0is also very tolerant of salt spray and drought.<\/p>\n<p>Lyme grass is a spreading cool season perennial grass in\u00a0full sun or\u00a0partial shade. Foliage is evergreen into\u00a0the lower 20s. Plants grow equally well either\u00a0full all-day sun or under\u00a0several\u00a0hours of moderate shade.\u00a0Practice low soil fertility as this grass can\u00a0become\u00a0too aggressive. \u00a0It tolerates\u00a0a wide range of soils from wet to dry. It\u00a0tends to be less aggressive in dry, clay soils and foliage becomes more silvery blue in color.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Landscape Use:<\/strong> Lyme Grass can be used along woodland borders, in mass plantings, in containers or planters, as a border or edger, around decks, swimming pools, and other outdoor living areas, in landscape beds or islands, to stabilize steep slopes and sand dunes.\u00a0It is resistant to deer, rabbits, drought, insects, diseases, mildew, heat and butterflies are attracted to\u00a0its\u00a0flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Mow off old foliage in late fall or early spring to refresh the planting. Clumps are easily divided at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Lyme Grass (Leymus arenarus \u2018Blue Dune\u2019) is a vigorous spreading cool season grass\u00a0(USDA Hardiness zones 3-9).\u00a0It\u00a0is native to the coasts of northern and western Europe. A closely related species,\u00a0L. mollis,\u00a0is native to the northern coasts of North America. Blue lyme grass\u00a0is a stand out because of\u00a0its beautiful steel-blue foliage. Atlanta Botanical Gardens has\u00a0sited it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,772,1218,1319,674,806,800,628,774,1346,698,627,688,625,843,812,777,630,706,113,655,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9128,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9122\/revisions\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}