Ornamental Grasses For Iowa

It will make you stop in your tracks! Plant a small drift of Little Miss to imitate the color and movement of the prairie, or just plant one individually to animate your border. Not a big revolution.

The effect is shockingly bright color in your garden from a typically simple grass. If you live near the coast, ‘Fireworks' will grow without need to coddle it. This is a tough perennial grass that is easy to care for.

By the time autumn arrives, your picturesque grass adopts shades of deep purple, topped with decorative seeds of red/purple intensity. Hot Rod Switch Grass is a must-have for those spots in your yard where you'd like some year-round interest.

Each blade has a soft creamy interior that glows against a rich deep-green edge. You know that you need this beauty in your garden this year. Enjoy Big Excitement From a Little Plant! It's time to add some energy and excitement to your tired garden and...

'Red Head' looks great in late-season containers. The bushy plumes are great as cut flowers if they are cut soon after they emerge. In the fall the leaves turn gold in color. The deep purple buds mature to smoky purple plumes.

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

The golden color of this cultivar casts a reflection on ponds and streams and will reflect light. Carex Bowles Golden is easily grown in medium to wet soil in full sun to part shade.

Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. Clumps slowly expand in circumference by short rhizomes, but retain tight clump shape.

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

Best in full sun. Accent, specimen, grouping or mass. Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to...

This sedge is evergreen in the deep South, maintaining good foliage in both summer and winter. A dense, clump-forming sedge it features grass-like, arching, variegated leaves which are creamy yellow with dark green borders.

Best in full sun. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clays present in much of the St. Louis area. Leaf blades feature, at irregular intervals, distinctive horizontal yellow bands (to 1” in height) that retain...

This elegantly shaped grass has narrow leaves with white mid-ribs and a vase-like form. Tolerates of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clay. Substantial clumps tend to flop (or totally collapse when subjected to heavy winter...

Will grow in part shade, but begins to lose its columnar form in too much shade, growing more openly and possibly falling over. Foliage also turns beige in fall and provides good winter interest.

Foliage is less than 1/8” wide and up to 12” long. Plants adapt to a wide range of conditions – moderate salinity, drought, slightly acid or alkaline pH and heavy clay or sandy soil.

Stems typically retain vertical form without flopping throughout the growing season and into winter. It is a clump-forming, warm season grass which typically grows in an upright, vertical clump to 3′ tall (to 5′ when in flower).

If you can find a fertilizer formulated for shrubs, this fertilizer would work well onPennisetum Hameln as grasses have similar nutrional requirements to shrubs. A deficiency of Phosphorus may affect the energy transfer in the plant, and result in stunted...

Growing to be about 6 feet, this variety makes a striking statement planted in the back of a perennial garden. 'Red October' has attractive foliage that changes color seasonally. Deer tend to stay away and this grass will quickly become one of the focal...

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

This grass is made for partial shade. , commonly called Hakone grass, is a rhizomatous, shade-loving, deciduous perennial grass that is native both to moist mountain areas including wet rocky cliffs and to moist woodland areas in central Japan, including...

In 1848, and for many years now has been grown as an ornamental plant in certain southern and western parts of the U.S. It has also been grown commercially for harvest of its large flower plumes for use in dried arrangements.

Juncus effusus clumps are often slow to establish, but once established will spread by creeping rhizomes. Tolerates light shade, but best in full sun. Is commonly found in central and southern Missouri in stream margins, sloughs, ponds, wet depressions...

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Carex Blue Zinger is slightly taller and bluer than the straight species. A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of the plant with...

This vivid red color is at its best in autumn.– Ornamental grasses also provide borders with unending interest throughout the seasons. The shorter, low-growing ornamental grasses are most often used as edging.

Divide the plants in spring before any fresh shoots appear and plant each new grass clump far enough away so that it doesn't shade its neighbors.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1"); });So how do you fix falling...

A faster and more reliable method for propagation of ornamental grasses is through division. 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...

Deer resistant. Good for cut arrangements. It is an excellent cutting plant for flower 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...