Ornamental Grass Border

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 inside foliage, near the center stays green which gives a neat two-tone effect.

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

Hot Rod Switch Grass is a must-have for those spots in your yard where you'd like some year-round interest. It has an upright habit, with a gentle cascading effect (to the outside foliage), lending a touch of additional elegance to its form.

Each blade has a soft creamy interior that glows against a rich deep-green edge. 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.

* Enormous Purple Plumes All Summer * Golden Foliage in Autumn * Deer Resistant * Great as foundation plantings The bushy plumes are great as cut flowers if they are cut soon after they emerge.

It makes a magnificent ground cover or try it in your favorite container. Once you try it you will agree that it is such a great and adaptable plant. Lime-striped foliage all year! Do you want to add year-round motion and energy to your garden this year?

Cut to ground in winter. Foliage promptly turns yellow after frost. This species thrives in shallow water (2-3 “). It reflects its beautiful color on ponds and streams. Carex Bowles Golden is easily grown in medium to wet soil in full sun to part shade.

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 typically grows in a clump to 3-4' tall.

Miscanthus Morning Light is a grass cultivar that is noted for its very narrow green leaves with white variegation on the margins. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clays present in much of the St. Louis area.

Fast-growing, graceful, foliage. Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. 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...

Each leaf features a broad, creamy, yellowish-white center stripe bordered on each side by thin narrow dark green margins. Plants generally dislike hot and humid summer climates. It is not evergreen in the Maryland area, although some foliage color will...

Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to provide protection for the crowns. Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear.

Blooms later than most cultivars. Miscanthus gracillimus is easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prefers moist soils. Best in full sun. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy...

Will grow in part shade, but begins to lose its columnar form in too much shade, growing more openly and possibly falling over. Panicum Shenandoah grows in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade.

Foliage is less than 1/8” wide and up to 12” long. By late summer or autumn plants are crowned with buff colored seedheads. Plants adapt to a wide range of conditions – moderate salinity, drought, slightly acid or alkaline pH and heavy clay or sandy...

Seed plumes persist well into winter providing visual interest as well as food for birds. Easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. It is useful for erosion control, rain gardens and areas with salt spray.

Wrapped tightly, they should hold together long enough to get you to the compost, where you can spring them loose. When fertilizing grasses grown in containers on the patio, be careful to apply a fertilizer that will not burn the roots (such as a slow...

We recommend planting Red October in almost any sunny spot with well-draining soil. Deer tend to stay away and this grass will quickly become one of the focal points in your late season garden.

Mass for cover of areas with poor soils. In Missouri, it most frequently occurs in acidic soils in open woods, glades or openings along roads primarily in central Ozark and western areas south of the Missouri River (see Steyermark).

In St. Louis, the variegated striping appears gold in part shade. Genus name comes from the Japanese place named Hakone and the Greek word // > Other common names include forest grass and Japanese forest grass.

Tolerates light shade. Female plants produce prodigious amounts of seed and can self-seed freely, often resulting in naturalization that displaces valuable native plants. However, it bears the same showy plumes which are creamy white and silky to the...

Soft rush is commercially grown in Japan for making tatami (woven mats for homes). Plants will also naturalize by self-seeding. Cut back old foliage in early spring. Juncus effususcommonly called soft rush, common rush, bog rush or mat rush, is a grass-like,...

Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked.

Can be used in rain gardens. Good for cut arrangements. 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...

Deer resistant, tolerates heavy shade and wet soils. Slowly naturalizes by spreading roots. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil...

Blue Festuca is a hardy, rapidly multiplying, year round ground cover. Flower and rock gardens and small areas where you would like to draw special attention. A handsome and different ground cover.

Stem and mid-rib of foliage turns purple after about 8 leaves have developed. Foliage turns purple when moved from greenhouse to full sun. (Pennisetum glaucum) 72”. Use in full to partial sun.