Oh she is such a beauty!! What a stance! Looks like you have her the invisible fence?

Oh yeah, the grasses look good, too!! lol. I don't think I've seen those before, with the drooping habit. I was thinking you'd be showing Purple Majesty, or like that!!

Nancy.

Annie is one gorgeous gal lucky you. Your ornamental millet is quite striking, how tall does it grow? It looks like it might be a nice addition to add a bit of height where needed in my garden.

Annette

Love the look of that one with the dark leaf. What kinds of things do you like pairing it with in a bouquet?
Funny this should come up, as I just put ornamental millet on my seed 'want' list for next year. I decided to get some from seeing a lovely black-plumed, gold leafed annual sort on Nancy J. Ondra's blog called 'Jade Princess'.

I also have a prennial gold leaf Milleum effusum 'Aureum'. The plumes are not too ornamental, but the bright golden spring foliage really livens up the garden. Really like it amongst the early tulips. It reseeds a lot, but is very easy to pull.
For the past couple years I have been growing some common millet (Panicum milaceum) for the birds. In fact, it first popped up here from a birdseed mix. So fun to watch them bobbing up and down on the stems.
Hope you don't mind my posting a pic...

Yes, Nancy, the fence is between us and she is just about as close to me as she can get. I know I've shown the Purple Majesty a time or two, and I liked the look of these two together. Nothing outstanding, but nice.

Annette, the millets grow to about five feet and are really easy to grow from seed. The one that is dark-colored now started out green just like the other one, and they weren't very picturesque until the burgundy color developed.

CMK, I'll be looking up Jade Princess. It sounds cool. I throw a few of these into almost any of my mixed bouquets. I use a lot of zinnias, sunflowers, rudbeckia, dianthus, amaranth, daisies, statice, snapdragons, and other stuff. Great picture. I am imagining that you threw down your shovel and said "Time for a cold beverage!" Of course I don't mind that you posted a picture. I really like your gardening style.

TM

If the birds like it, I like it. Do the birds eat your millet?

Roper, yes they do, once the seeds ripen. The birds are going after the dark older heads right now.

TM

I love that chartreuse color. Lovely dog.
Renee

Thanks thinman! ;-) Oooo...I bet the dark millet would look nice with some of those green zinnias!
Lol, you are right! That pic was taken a couple of weeks ago when I had been moving a whole bunch of things around before the rainy weather came. Then I kicked off my flip flops (also shown in pic, lol), threw down the shovel, and was off to get some lemon verbena iced tea!
CMK

I guessed that it was millet growing under the bird feeders! But at first I thought a chipmunk had buried some corn. I've been letting it grow.

Love that pic with the birds.

Thinman, is this millet? It's growing near my bird feeders.

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It sure looks to me like it could be proso millet, the kind they grow for birdseed.

TM

Here is a link that might be useful: You could check this out.

Looks to me more like sorghum.