Gail, Kathy from Cold Climate Gardening wrote this in her email to us: And finally, on a completely different topic, I already grow the ribbon grass that Frances gave to everyone, but I know it as variegated bulbous oat grass, Arrhenatherum elatius var. bulbosum ‘Variegatum’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Sweet Home « Fairegarden] Reference

He recommends the "tall oat grass" (Arrhenatherum avenaceum) and the Texas mesquit grass (Holcus lanatus) introduced from England, called also velvet grass and white timothy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Bulbous oat grass (Arrhenatherum elatius bulbosum 'Variegatum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edhat Santa Barbara]

| Arrhenatherum avenaceum -- | | | | | | | |.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock] Reference

Arrhenatherum, 586.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference