Melinis Nerviglumis ‘Savannah’
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Collapse ▲Trial: Annual
Year Trialed: 2004
Year of Trial: First (from 2004 report)
Good Qualities
Nice pink/purple color (8); Small size for bouquets, interesting addition to arrangements; Good filler; Pretty plumes; Very easy, nice looking, retained color even when dried; Great look, great for fall bouquet work, nice foliage; I am always looking for fall arrangement items and it looks like this grass might work but it was too little too late; Produces millions of stems, but the stems just aren=t very strong, thus my customers will go for the bigger stronger stemmed grasses first, it is so easy to grow, it might be a better landscape grass; Full blooms, larger than expected, they shimmer a metallic pink in the light, plants are tidy and healthy looking all season; They are so soft, we had no pest problems, and we are still harvesting after frost; Plants were a nice clump of grass, it may have potential as grown in pots for the cut flower industry, also, easy to sow and grow, we simply seeded it into plug trays and germinated it under a mist system.
Problems
Flower head too small (3); Short stems (2); Very late (2); Nothing distinctive about this one, it looks like “lawn grass” as it matured through the summer, it became a somewhat attractive plant in a 8 inch clay pot; I suspect it would be difficult to sell because of it’s “lawn grass” appearance; I didn=t have problems getting this grass germinated, I could not get it to grow in speedling trays, only ended up with 1 plant; Harvesting by hand can be tedious at times.
Postharvest
Pick the stems before the yellow anthers appear. However, if they are already on, if you run your hand down a bunch if seems to knock most of them off.
Trial Data
| Yield (stems/plant) | Stem Length (inches) | Market Appreciation Rating¹ | Repeat Again Rating¹ | Ease of Cultivation Rating¹ | Average Spacing (in2) | Average Postharvest Life (days) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale | Retail | Consumer | |||||||
| Average | 18.7 | 20.5 | 3.7 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 4.2 | 113 | 13.7 |
| Range of Responses | 1-112 | 14-28 | 1-5 | 1-5 | 1-4 | 1-5 | 1-5 | 36-216 | 10-20 |
¹1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the best. Market ratings are based on sales to wholesalers, retailers, or final consumers direct.
Supplier
Benary Seed
1444 Larson St.
Sycamore, IL 60178
Comments
Attractive bedding plant (2); Plant- beautiful mound of green, perhaps better use in landscape gardening; Direct seeded in greenhouse on 2/3/04 in a 200 cell tray, 2 plants made it to the field, one grew; A plant worth waiting for; We bunched it in 24 stems/bunch and asked $4 each, we had a lot of positive feedback on it at our field day, everyone was writing down the name of the tag.