celebrating grasses

I'm joining a number of fellow bloggers in the celebration of ornamental grasses. When Shirl started this topic, my initial feeling was that I just don't have enough of them. I love grasses-- the way they catch the light and move in the breeze-- but I tend to feel that they look best in big, natural looking drifts, and I just don't have that much room. I do however have this:
which I've only known as Mexican Feather Grass, and a google search shows to be 'stipa tenuissima'. An enthusiastic re-seeder, its offspring have been escorted to various bare spots around the yard, from which it may be removed when something else comes along.
Growing on the deck, in two big beautiful blue pots given to me by Tony's mom, Alice, is this: possibly Stipa arundinacea?


And below, catching some late afternoon rays. (with 'creeping jenny' & a bacopa).

... it turns a beautiful orange in the winter, but it hasn't been as vigorous this year as last..



Next, I believe is an orange sedge, or carex testacea; and below that, it appears with a bluish grass clump to the left of it (a fescue?)





But wait-- isn't bamboo a grass?
We have a few clumps of this-- growing in big half wine-barrels (so it doesn't take over the yard & cause trouble with the neighbors).
That wraps up my round-up of grasses.
I'm starting to suspect I may be able to find room for a few more...

Be sure to visit Shirl's Scotland garden blog, and other celebrations of grasses on other blogs, through her comment section.