I greatly enjoy my maiden grass during the wintertime. After my herbaceous perennials have died back and my deciduous shrubs have dropped their leaves, it's really the only game in town in that patch of my landscape. So there's nothing else around to compete with the beauty of its seed-heads, stalks and blade-like leaves.
Not that maiden grass needs its competition eliminated in order to shine brightly. This is a tall ornamental grass; it's more likely to obscure its neighbors than to be obscured by them.
But ornamental grasses come in a whole range of heights. For example, during spring and summer, I enjoy blue fescue, that ornamental grass with an almost surreal blue color. Blue fescue is a short ornamental grass. It's not something you want to stick in the back row of a perennial bed, because you won't be able to appreciate it with taller plants in the way.
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