Low Ornamental Grasses

Wait until you see it backlit by the sun. 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.

The effect is shockingly bright color in your garden from a typically simple grass. 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.

By the time autumn arrives, your picturesque grass adopts shades of deep purple, topped with decorative seeds of red/purple intensity. It has an upright habit, with a gentle cascading effect (to the outside foliage), lending a touch of additional elegance...

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. Don't wait until we're sold out of Evercolor Everlite! They will go fast.

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.

If you want easy to grow and low-maintenance, then you can't beat Everlime. One of the very best is Evercolor Everlime Carex (Carex oshimensis ‘Everlime'). It works equally well in sun or shade and is drought and deer resistant once it is established.

Carex Bowles Golden has shimmering yellow leaves with dark green margins. Mass in moist, lightly shaded areas near ponds or streams. Cut to ground in winter. Can also be grown in average garden soil, albeit less vigorously, but soil must not be allowed...

The cultivar name does not describe a specific clone, but actually describes several very similar forms of miscanthus that have in common diminutive size and narrow leaves. It provides the strong narrow green leaves of Maiden Grass, but in a 3–4′...

Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to provide protection for the crowns. Miscanthus Morning Light is a somewhat smaller, more fine-textured version of the popular Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained...

Accent, specimen, grouping or mass. Best in full sun. Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. Borders, meadows, wild gardens, cottage gardens, naturalized areas or pond/water garden peripheries.

Plants spread slowly by short rhizomes. It is native to dry woods and rocky slopes throughout Honshu Island, Japan. Each leaf features a broad, creamy, yellowish-white center stripe bordered on each side by thin narrow dark green margins.

As seeds begin to form, the flower/seed plumes fade to creamy tan, often providing some winter interest. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clays present in much of the St. Louis area.

Foliage turns yellowish after frost, but quickly fades to straw-beige by winter. Tolerates of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clay. Clumps slowly expand in circumference by short rhizomes, but retain tight clump shape.

This ornamental switch grass cultivar features some of the best burgundy-red foliage of the many panicum cultivars currently available in commerce. Native to north America this grass is a perfect addition to any garden.

The pale silvery green blades are very mobile with a tendency to wave in the slightest breeze. This species thrives in coastal sites with excessive wind but is intolerant of sites with poorly drained soils.

Seed plumes persist well into winter providing visual interest as well as food for birds. It is useful for erosion control, rain gardens and areas with salt spray. Panicum Heavy Metal is a switchgrass cultivar which features metallic-blue foliage and...

They may even provide food for the birds. We truly love this product and use it on all plants we install in our own gardens. A deficiency of Phosphorus may affect the energy transfer in the plant, and result in stunted growth as well.

Who doesn't love the ever-changing colors and texture that Ornamental Grasses bring to the garden? Growing to be about 6 feet, this variety makes a striking statement planted in the back of a perennial garden.

Its delicate pink plume seed heads appear in late summer and completely envelop the foliage. It is native to prairies, pine barrens, and open woodlands from Massachusetts to Kansas south to Florida and Texas.

Genus name comes from the Japanese place named Hakone and the Greek word // > Species plants reportedly have better winter hardiness and perform better in full sun exposures than ‘Areola'.

Its common name is in obvious reference to the Argentine grasslands (the pampas) where it grows. This is a tough, large grass that forms dense, substantial clumps (tussocks) featuring arching, serrulate, narrow green leaves that are topped in fall by...

Insignificant, tiny, yellowish-green to pale brown flowers appear in clusters (many flowered cymes) that emerge on the side of the stems slightly below the stem tips in summer. Tolerates light shade, but best in full sun.

We suggest when planting your newly purchased Carex Blue Zinger plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. Remove the old flowers of Carex Blue Zinger as they become brown and unattractive but this is not necessary as...

These plants also make good accent plants among other border plants.When choosing ornamental grasses for borders, you should become familiar with their growing requirements as well as their characteristics.

One of the few problems you may have with an ornamental grass plant, however, is the stems falling over, otherwise known as lodging of ornamental grasses.Preventing flopping grass in the garden is easier once you understand why ornamental grass falls...

In all cases, keep competitive weeds from around the root zone and add a layer of organic mulch to protect roots and rhizomes in cold temperatures and conserve moisture.Divided plants may grow in containers or in ground.

Beautiful rose-copper flower plumes begin their entrance in July with new seed heads appearing all the way into September! Rose Fountain Grass is a very easy plant to grow and is known for its vigorous performance.