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title: Grasses, Flaxes & Lilies for your garden
description: Using grass, flaxes and sedges can be a great way to create structure and movement in the garden.
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# [Grasses, Flaxes & Lilies for your garden](https://blog.rockypoint.com.au/grasses-flaxes-lilies)

 Written by [Rocky Point](https://blog.rockypoint.com.au/author/rachelle) | Sep 27, 2021 8:00:00 PM

Using grass, flaxes and sedges can be a great way to create structure and movement in the garden.

The wind can catch the long billowy grass blades and in turn create a wonderful visual effect. Sometimes it can even be the sound of the wind moving the grass clumps around that is the feature. Clumping flaxes and strappy-leafed lily type plants won’t give movement so much but will definitely add variety to your planting palette in the form of different structural shapes, colours, and textures.

**- Sensational 7 Choices - **

Agapanthus: dwarf and tall varieties are available with flowers ranging in colour from white, blues, two tone and even pale pink. Full sun.

Pennisetum rubrum: dwarf and large forms available. Cut it back to almost ground level when it looks shabby and brown. Full sun.

Lomandra ‘Mat rush’: a native rush that comes in dozens of sizes and foliage types. Hardy.

Dianella: a native flax that produces delicate blue flowers and edible purple berries. Good for sunny or shady locations.

Anigozanthos ‘Kangaroo paw’: famous Australian native cut flower. Good drainage and full sun are essential.

*Cymbopogon citratus* ‘Lemon grass’: Large growing grass to 2m that produce lemon flavoured stems and blades used in cooking and teas.

Clivia: Fleshy, dark green leaved clumping lily that produces flowers in shades or cream, yellow, apricot, orange, vermillion and even green. Shade lover.

Other popular choices: *Dietes bicolour* ‘Spanish iris’, *Dietes grandiflora* ‘Wild iris’, *Tulbaghia violacea* ‘Society garlic’, Carex species and cultivars, *Festuca glauca*, *Themeda triandra* ‘Kangaroo grass’, *Phormium tenax* ‘N.Z Flax’, Helmholtzia *glaberrima* ‘Stream lily’ Hemerocallis ‘Daylily’, *Hymenocallis littoralis* ‘Spider lily’, Hippeastrum cultivars, Miscanthus species.

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