The magic of winter grasses and top tips for growing them in the garden

There’s midwinter magic in the air, because the sun is lower in the sky than at any other time of the year. It’s slanting through the garden, highlighting texture and detail, and taller grasses are stealing the limelight. It may be raindrops glistening along the length of the stems, or upright plumes getting the William Holman Hunt Light of the World treatment, or feathery silhouettes shimmying and swaying in the slightest breeze. They certainly do that in my hilltop garden and, as winter unfold