Blue Ornamental Grass

As it grows it abandons its erect stance and adopts a rather elegant manner, slightly bowing for a gentle, soft appearance. * Ornamental * Durable * Deer resistant * Great groundcover

If you want to really stop traffic, a mass planting along a walk or driveway will do the trick. Long a staple of riotous English cottage borders and calm Japanese tea gardens alike, US gardeners are finally catching up to the ease and carefree beauty...

Tons of showy flower plumes emerge above the foliage in rustic bronze shades that fade to pink then white as autumn comes on. Mix them into your perennial borders. They reach 5 feet tall and three feet wide in full sun.

Wait until you see it backlit by the sun. If you have to garden small, be sure to go big! Order your own Little Miss Maiden Grass today. It will make you stop in your tracks! Plant a small drift of Little Miss to imitate the color and movement of the...

Fireworks brings deep beautiful color wherever you plant it, even in containers! It grows 24” to 36” tall and holds its color all season long, even deep onto the fall. This is a tough perennial grass that is easy to care for.

It has an upright habit, with a gentle cascading effect (to the outside foliage), lending a touch of additional elegance to its form. Hot Rod Switch Grass stays true to its name as the “hot rod” of the grasses—ablaze in color from summer through...

It looks stunning with dark-colored evergreens or the bright flowers of a perennial border. With a max height of 10 to 15 inches and a max width of 8 to 10 inches this little guy fits anywhere, sun or shade.

Smoky Rose Color Plumes That Last Months! The Ornamental Fountain Grass 'Redhead Fountain Grass', 'Pennisetum 'Redhead', produces very soft plumes that are smoky rose in color, all season long.

It stands out from other carex with eye-catching spring-green blades with a lime-green edge. It forms a neat and easily controlled mound that looks fantastic in a row along the edge of a planter or in masses, filling in large beds under trees.

Foliage promptly turns yellow after frost. Mass in moist, lightly shaded areas near ponds or streams. A good plant for the water garden or low spot. It reflects its beautiful color on ponds and streams.

Prefers moist soils. Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to provide protection for the crowns. Tiny buffy colored flowers with red tinges emerge in fluffy panicles above the foliage in August-September.

Miscanthus Morning Light is a grass cultivar that is noted for its very narrow green leaves with white variegation on the margins. Typically forms an upright, rounded clump of foliage growing 4-6′ tall.

Fast-growing, graceful, foliage. Tiny pink-tinged flowers appear in tassel-like inflorescences above the foliage in late summer, gradually turning into creamy white plumes by fall as the seeds mature.

Plants generally dislike hot and humid summer climates. It is native to dry woods and rocky slopes throughout Honshu Island, Japan. This sedge features narrow leaves (typically to 16” long by 5/16” wide).

Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Clumps slowly expand in circumference by short rhizomes, but retain tight clump shape. Tiny flowers emerge gray-purple with the plumes having an overall wine-purple coloration.

Flower plumes persist well into winter providing good winter interest. Miscanthus gracillimus is easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy...

Prefers Full sun to bring out the best red color. Tolerates wide range of soils, including dry ones, but prefers moist, sandy or clay soils. Perfect for use in rain gardens, and provides winter interest in any situation.

Any of these can be prevented for the most part by following good blue grama grass care and only watering in extreme drought and only when the blades of grass have time to dry in the coolest part of the day.

This species performs as a perennial through zone 7 but is usually a reseeding annual in areas with colder winters. This grass prospers in sunny sites with a wide variety of soils.

Cut back clumps to the ground in late winter to early spring. Foliage clump is topped in mid-summer by finely-textured, pink-tinged, branched flower panicles which hover over the foliage like an airy cloud.

They may even provide food for the birds. You'll want to water the bushes regularly after planting until they've been well established. Plants that are deficient in , are usually growing more slowly than normal, have fewer flowers and seed, and are more...

Growing to be about 6 feet, this variety makes a striking statement planted in the back of a perennial garden. Red October is no exception, creating a fiery red statement with its fall foliage colors.

Mass for cover of areas with poor soils. Best in full sun. Plants typically grow to 3' tall x 3' wide when in flower. Tolerant of heat, humidity and drought, but generally grows taller with consistent moisture.

Species plants (not cultivars thereof) may be grown by seed. Leaf variegation color is affected by the amount of sun exposure and the growing climate. In St. Louis, the variegated striping appears gold in part shade.

Female plants produce prodigious amounts of seed and can self-seed freely, often resulting in naturalization that displaces valuable native plants. This is a tough, large grass that forms dense, substantial clumps (tussocks) featuring arching, serrulate,...

From ancient times until the early 1900s, soft rush stems were used in England to create inexpensive, candle-like evening lights called “rushlights.” Rush stems were peeled away and the inner pith was soaked in animal fat, grease or wax.

We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the root system to rot.