Ornamental Grasses For Part Shade

Order Gold Dew Tufted Hair grass from Nature Hills today. The catch with growing grasses is that you have to know what size and form you're growing or you'll end up with the wrong plant in the wrong place and many people misjudge just how tall grasses...

Just one will elevate your garden to designer status! Adagio swings on the scene in early spring with loads of silvery green foliage arching out like a fountain. Don't wait to order these sure-fire great additions to your landscape.

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. Big drama for small urban spaces! There is a revolution happening right now...

If you live near the coast, ‘Fireworks' will grow without need to coddle it. In late summer it will shoot up soft, fluffy ‘foxtails' blooms that will add even greater interest.

Hot Rod Switch Grass is a must-have for those spots in your yard where you'd like some year-round interest. It's drought tolerant and generally carefree. Even when in decline Hot Rod adds decorative interest to the winter landscape.

Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil. Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant.

You know that you need this beauty in your garden this year. 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. Enjoy Big Excitement From a Little Plant! It's time to add some energy and...

The bushy plumes are great as cut flowers if they are cut soon after they emerge. 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...

They are super easy to care for, they fit into just about any garden style and there are so many colors and forms to choose from. Whether your garden is rustic or formal, Evercolor Everlime will brighten it up all year.

Insignificant flowers appear in May on inflorescences of staminate and pistulate spikes which are not showy but are noticeable and persist into July. Cultivars of this species are superior garden plants to the species.

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. ‘Yaku Jima' is sometimes described in commerce as being a dwarf form of Easily...

Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear. Best in full sun. 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...

Borders, meadows, wild gardens, cottage gardens, naturalized areas or pond/water garden peripheries. Clumps slowly expand in circumference by short rhizomes, but retain tight clump shape.

Plants thrive in moist soils, but also perform well in average garden soils, with better tolerance for periods of dryness than most sedges have. Plants are evergreen throughout most of their growing range.

It typically grows in a substantial clump to 4-6' tall, but sends up flower stalks to 2' above the foliage, thus bringing the total height of the grass to 6-8' tall when in flower.

Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Foliage turns yellowish after frost, but quickly fades to straw-beige by winter. They are a mounding grass with gracefully flowing narrow green foliage.

This ornamental switch grass cultivar features some of the best burgundy-red foliage of the many panicum cultivars currently available in commerce. Prefers Full sun to bring out the best red color.

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 areas with colder winters.

Seed plumes persist well into winter providing visual interest as well as food for birds. Grows primarily in clumps, but may infrequently spread by rhizomes. Generally best in full sun.

When roots are burned, the first sign is often scorched edges on the foliage. We truly love this product and use it on all plants we install in our own gardens. That are not included in the three numbers listing on the front of fertilizer bags are very...

(Andropogon gerardii) Red October is no exception, creating a fiery red statement with its fall foliage colors. Beginning as a gray-blue in spring, deepening to blue-green in summer, and then dramatically turning a brilliant scarlet-red come fall, this...

Plant en masse, in a patio container or place them between shrubs in the landscape. It is the fall flowering, however, that most distinguishes this grass. It is native to prairies, pine barrens, and open woodlands from Massachusetts to Kansas south to...

This grass is made for partial shade. Tolerates close to full shade, particularly in the hot summer climates of the deep South. Other common names include forest grass and Japanese forest grass.

This grass is technically gynodioecious, but usually appears dioecious. In the colder climates, this grass will generally not survive winter, and should be planted in large containers (e.g., whiskey barrels) for overwintering in a garage etc.

Although the stems appear from a distance as coarse and stiff, they are soft to the touch. 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...

Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil. That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot.

Medium grasses can also be used as accents among herbaceous perennials and shrubs as well as define border areas.The taller grasses are normally used to provide structure or a backbone for borders.