Colorado Native Grasses

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Reportedly does well in heavy clay soils, unlike many other kinds of ornamental grasses. Calamagrostis Karl Foerster creates a stunning vertical effect with tall, elegant, feathery stalks that emerge reddish-brown in summer.

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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. If you live near the coast, ‘Fireworks' will grow without need to coddle it.

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 is a must-have for those spots in your yard where you'd like some year-round interest.

This is the most compact of all the Evercolor sedges and is perfect for edging a border, softening a hardscape, spilling out of a container or filling out a garden bed. Don't wait until we're sold out of Evercolor Everlite! They will go fast.

Use this plant in containers, in sunny borders, meadows, rock gardens, and foundation plantings. Smoky Rose Color Plumes That Last Months! The Ornamental Fountain Grass 'Redhead Fountain Grass', 'Pennisetum 'Redhead', produces very soft plumes that are...

Nothing does that as well as grasses and sedges. Order yours today! * Cold-hardy to zone 5 * Distinctive lime-striped foliage * Super-easy care * Deer resistant Once you try it you will agree that it is such a great and adaptable plant.

Cut them down in late winter and they will spring back up fresh every year. It quickly becomes a stunning whirl of burgundy and gold in the fall. One Adagio Maiden Grass is a stunning centerpiece and standout specimen in your garden, but multiples are...

It will flourish in high sun but also tolerate the shady spots in your yard. We recommend one to four plugs per square foot of lawn depending on how dense you'd like it to be and how quickly you'd like it to fill in.

It shows allelopathic tendencies so it is known to suppress weeds. With proper care, you can have an established lawn in as little as 90 days UC Verde Buffalo grass Plugs are all sold by the tray.

It's drought resistant, so no need to water. In the summer tiny blue flowers form, resembling little balls, adding a bit of additional decorative appeal. Dwarf Mondo Grass is durable, hardy grass with ornamental appeal.

It has a clumping habit of growth and is less of a sod-forming grass than Big Bluestem. The leaves are very tough with serrated edges that can cut the skin.Another species that colonizes areas of moist soil, forming dense clumps.

With so many people moving from the suburbs back into urban spaces, there is a trend of finding beautiful small – even dwarf – plants to fit the smaller gardens. Little Miss has green, lush, graceful foliage that emerges in early spring.

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Order Gold Dew Tufted Hair grass from Nature Hills today. Gold Dew has very dark green leaves and blooms a little later than other grasses, but when it blooms it is covered in golden inflorescence that dance and shine and sparkle in your garden and are...

Foliage can be semi-evergreen or deciduous depending on the climate. The pale silvery green blades are very mobile with a tendency to wave in the slightest breeze. This species performs as a perennial through zone 7 but is usually a reseeding annual in...

The golden color of this cultivar casts a reflection on ponds and streams and will reflect light. Insignificant flowers appear in May on inflorescences of staminate and pistulate spikes which are not showy but are noticeable and persist into July.

Miscanthus Yaku Jima' is a clump-forming grass that is native to certain areas of Japan including the Island of Yaku Jima. The cultivar name does not describe a specific clone, but actually describes several very similar forms of miscanthus that have...

Foliage has an overall silvery appearance. Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. Elegant, arching white and green variegated leaves, this elegant ornamental grass is noted for its very narrow green leaves with...

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Cultivars available in commerce today, typically growing 3 to 4 feet tall (5 feet in bloom.) It is an upright, warm season, clump-forming ornamental grass which features extremely narrow, silver-gray blades which turn yellow in fall.

This sedge is evergreen in the deep South, maintaining good foliage in both summer and winter. Plants thrive in moist soils, but also perform well in average garden soils, with better tolerance for periods of dryness than most sedges have.

Leaf blades feature, at irregular intervals, distinctive horizontal yellow bands (to 1” in height) that retain good coloration throughout the growing season. Prefers moist soils.

Flower plumes persist well into winter providing good winter interest. Substantial clumps tend to flop (or totally collapse when subjected to heavy winter snows), and will often benefit from some support.

Best growth occurs in climates with cool summer temperatures. Plant foliage will lose color intensity (particularly on variegated leaf cultivars) in full shade. Species plants (not cultivars thereof) may be grown by seed.