ophiopogon

This series has been fascinating – and even though most of these lovely plants might not survive here, there must be some in the color range that would grow in Austin…dwarf black ophiopogon has stayed alive, so maybe the tall one would, too?

Color in the Garden-GBDW Part Three « Fairegarden 2008

By fall the violas are gone but the black mondo grass, ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’, seems too large.

The Knot Garden « Fairegarden 2007

It was the bronze horse from the entrance to the model farm, gleaming in the moonlight of Mrs. Horne's backyard, its head held high and its mane and tail flying, its majesty slightly impaired by a staggering tilt to the left where its supporting front leg had punched into the soft dirt of Mrs. Horne's ophiopogon border.

Bailey White: 'What Would They Say in Birmingham?' 2006

These include ginseng (Panax ginseng), astragalus (A. membranicus), and suma (Pfaffia paniculata), taken to tonify energy; dong quai (Angelica sinensis) and yellow dock root (Rumex crispus), taken to tonify blood; rehmannia root (Rehmannia glutinosa), American ginseng (P. quinquefolia), ophiopogon (O. japonicus) and lycii berries (Lycium chinensis), Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica), taken to tonify body essence.

THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

I don’t have many grasses now – unless you count lirope and ophiopogon.

Grasses « Fairegarden 2008