{"id":14519,"date":"2012-10-24T00:43:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T07:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14519"},"modified":"2012-10-22T09:22:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:22:58","slug":"black-grass-ophiopogon-planiscapus-nigresens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/weeds-gardening\/black-grass-ophiopogon-planiscapus-nigresens\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Grass Ophiopogon planiscapus Nigresens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grass is designed to be green but gardeners being what they are they often want to get Black Grass.<\/p>\n<p>Ophiopogon planiscapus Nigresens is often called Black Mondo. It is a rhizomus grass with delicate flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14521 aligncenter\" title=\"Ophiopogon planiscapus\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Kew-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The snowdrop sets off the grass which is easy to grow but occasionally slow to spread.<br \/>\nIt makes a gothic garden feature or fits in well with a <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/black-gardens\/\">&#8216;black foliage and flower garden&#8217;<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe straplike, shiny black foliage grows in little tufts and combines well with many other plants.<br \/>\nOphiopogon planiscapus Nigresens is not to be confused with Black-grass Alopecurus myosuroides or Black twitch. This is an annual weed native throughout the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Plants and framed photographs are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=sr_gnr_fkmr0?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AOphiopogon&amp;keywords=Ophiopogon&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1350922630=20=richardpettin-21&amp;index=blended&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738\">available from<\/a> Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grass is designed to be green but gardeners being what they are they often want to get Black Grass. Ophiopogon planiscapus Nigresens is often called Black Mondo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weeds-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}