How to incorporate grasses into garden?

[SkodaLabia]

I'm creating a garden from scratch but on a v small budget so I'm keen to use what I've got lying about. I have a few grasses in pots that I love but am losing confidence that I know what to do with them.

Will they look weird plonked in among lavender and honeysuckle? I love grasses but I love flowers more so don't want to do a solely grass garden. Plus I don't want to waste what I've brought some the previous house.

So far I have broom, honeysuckle, jasmine, foxgloves, lavender, pyracantha, coleanthus, an apple tree, some fledgling buddleia globolus (sp) and these grasses.

Any ideas?

[Stopanuary]

Have a look at

www.crocus.co.uk/features/_/articleid.1007/

And

www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardenprojects/3303880/Home-on-the-range.html

[SkodaLabia]

Mumsnet is brill.

I love that photo in the crocus link. Didn't realise that chucking some grasses in with other stuff is called prairie style. The other article sums up my fear that unless I get it right it could look odd.

[Ferguson]

Oh yes! Prairie Style is one of the latest things, so you will be right in fashion! A good example in Gardeners World tonight.

If it doesn't work, stick them back in big pots and have a rethink.

[DoreenLethal]

Prairie style has been in for about 10 years. We have grasses dotted about in amongst the acer, hellebores, lavender, fennel, yada yada yada.

[SkodaLabia]

It seems the key is to put them in with other things of a similar structure, ie not pansies and trailing lobelia. I bought them when we first moved to our house as it's coastal and there's lots of coastal planting in our area. I had in mind a gravelly spiky sort of garden.

Then I remembered I like a bursting full of colour and greenery sort of garden.