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I don't have any trouble with my liriope....it's the variegated kind, maybe that's why. I read once that variegated plants are generally not as vigorous as green ones. I like it. It grows well in not much sun and makes pretty purple flowers.
Mine just makes bigger and bigger clumps every year....no runners.
Now, there is some other kind of grass next to the back steps that was here when we bought the house. It does run, but not horribly, as I have been able to easily keep it in one spot for 11 years by just pulling up strays. It's not liriope. I would call it Mondo grass, as the leaves are very thin.
I think in these parts people mean plain green liriope when they say "monkey grass".
I can't imagine doing the trimming by hand. We always just ran the lawn mower over it if we did anything at all but in Georgia and N.C. it doesn't even turn brown unless it has been a really bad winter. This past winter was terrible but it is still green.
Monkey grass as I know it, is a much darker green and stays much shorter than the Litrope or whatever is shown in the video above.
Agreed. I never would bother trimming my Mondo grass. It's much shorter than liriope, and it never even turns brown...even in the cold cold winter we just had..
Trimming liriope with pruning shears? That's insanity lol. Lawn mower or if you cant fit lawn mower, take a large knife, bunch the liriope and cut across.
I love Liriope and it looks great lining my flowerbeds. Never had a problem with it spreading and I keep it trimmed and cleaned up. When they get too big, I have dug them out quite easily and transplanted them. To each their own.
Mine edges my front walk so the railroad ties have halted it a bit. It does creep through the gravel. I think it looks pretty nice, it is shade tolerant (I have a LOT of shade) and it doesn't mind being vigorously raked in the fall.
My brother, who is my master gardener, turned up his nose at it and said to go at it with the weed whacker. He didn't mean trim it nicely, he meant to get out my frustrations on it.
I do trim it back in the spring because it gets straggly around the edges, but it recovers from a shearing pretty quickly.
I have something else in the same bed that spreads also and looks great: Hellebores!
How much water does monkey grass need?
I can't afford to water all the lawn area of my home, too much,
we don't get alot of rain, will it tolerate drought when it's established?
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