Chloris truncata (Windmill Grass)
1 Comment »20th February, 2007; Category: Drought Tolerant Plants, Frost Hardy Plants, Hardy Australian Native PLants, Native Grasses, Pruning Australian Native Plants, Tufted Plants
Chloris truncata (late summer)
After I decided to not water a patch until it became unacceptable as a lawn to test the time between waterings, we had 3.5 mm of rain. This was three and a half weeks between waterings and was almost at the stage of considering it to be in need of a watering. As a general rule I would say that 3 weekly intervals would keep a reasonable greenness about the grass. It is looking a bit tatty at the moment as it hasn’t been trimmed since late spring. We have also had many days above 35C and at least ten days above 40C.
I certainly think it is worth persevering with this grass in low rainfall areas, especially in areas where it occurs naturally.
How did you end up going with this? I had a square metre of naturally occuring windmill grass lawn…If I’d been more diligent over the last 12 months, I could’ve let it take over. Instead have started from scratch with a few native varieties, but I notice that windmill grass is quite happy to be transplanted and watered in. Given that there’s lots of it around our area on vacant blocks, I’m going to transplant a bit in anyway, even though I’m sure it’s already establishing again.