Effects of media porosity and container size on overwintering and growth of ornamental grasses

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 248-250

  Meyer, Mary Hockenberry ^a   Cunliffe, Bruce A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeration porosity; Calamagrostis xacutiflora 'Karl foerster'; Container production; Feather reedgrass; Flamegrass; Growing media; Little bluestem; Miscanthus 'Purpurascens'; Prairie dropseed; Schizachyrium scoparium; Sporobolus heterolepis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATOLOGY; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL SCIENCES; POROSITY;

GROWTH RESPONSE; OVERWINTERING SURVIVAL; QUADRATIC RESPONSE; TRANPLANTING PLUGS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CALAMAGROSTIS; CALAMAGROSTIS ACUTIFLORA; MISCANTHUS; MISCANTHUS FLORIDULUS; MISCANTHUS SINENSIS; POACEAE; SCHIZACHYRIUM; SCHIZACHYRIUM SCOPARIUM; SPOROBOLUS; SPOROBOLUS HETEROLEPIS;

EID: 2042465012     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.2.248     Document Type: Article

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