Well here is my final update regarding my efforts growing Dwarf Hairgrass emersed:
Over head shot of tank 6 weeks ago:
Overhead shot of the tank 4 days ago:
All-in-all I'm pretty happy with how things went. The hairgrass did grow quite tall once I upgraded my lights to 2x20 Watt CFLs. I think I'd have had better spread if I had given haircuts more often, but cleaning the bits of cut hairgrass in emersed tanks is really painful and I chose to be lazy and just not give any haircuts.
My plants from Robert get to me tomorrow. So it is going to be a long busy day as I struggle with my first aquascape/hardscape

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