Chinese Mustard Seeds

Goat’s beard -tragopogon pratenis– grows best in well-drained, dry soils, on sites in sunlight or semi-shade. In gardens, Goat’s beard can be introduced into meadows or rough grassland, where plants will attract a range of insect life including bees.

Pennisetum glaucum. With its cousins Purple Majesty and Jade Princess, Copper Prince Millet is the very picture of ornamental grass. The golden green foliage darkens at the points most exposed to the sun, becoming more mahogany in tone.

It is cultivated for the production of brooms and brooms, the variety is early maturing, ripens in 100-105 days, the plants are undersized (155-180 cm), slightly bushy, the panicle is straw, loose, not pubescent, cylindrical, elastic, 40-42 cm long.

Inflorescence spike-paniculate, compact, broadly ovate or capitate, up to 4 cm long, glumes are very narrow, densely pubescent, which gives the hairy inflorescence the appearance of a hare's tail, the lower floral scales with long geniculate.

Valuable park tree, used in steppe afforestation, decorative, drought-resistant, the most frost-resistant of all types of frame, unpretentious to soil, dust-gas resistant, frost resistance zone: 4-9 (up to -35 ° C).