Think You Can Identify This Plant? No. 26 – October 2007

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electronic mail usyour ingress by November 1 , 2007 , with “ Mystery industrial plant # 26 – October ” in the subject billet . Along with your surmise , please include your posting name and address and your telephony number . The winner will be chosen at random from all correct entries .

Last month’s winner

Last month ’s mystery plant life was Nipponese blood smoke ( Imperata cylindrical‘Red Baron ’ ) , a perennial Gunter Wilhelm Grass hardy in USDA Hardiness Zones 5 to 9 . While this pasture is turn over fast-growing or invasive in some Southeastern states , in other region it is a utilitarian blood-red emphasis in beds , delimitation , and the edges of forest , and grows to 16 inches tall and 12 inches wide . It prefer full sun to mottled shade and moist but well - drained territory . Japanese blood grass also makes a big addition to container planting . felicitation to Sandy Waks of Mill Valley , California , whose name was chosen at random from all right first appearance to win a one - year subscription toFine Gardening .

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