Ornamental Grasses For Shade

A compact grass with a big impact! Grasses are finally getting their day in the sun in American home gardens. These naturally short plants – the tufts only get about 24” tall – are perfect for covering the ‘feet' of bare-bottomed plants like tall...

It quickly becomes a stunning whirl of burgundy and gold in the fall. Mix them into your perennial borders. Watch them sing by your evergreens. One Adagio Maiden Grass is a stunning centerpiece and standout specimen in your garden, but multiples are breathtakingly...

Little Miss has green, lush, graceful foliage that emerges in early spring. 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.

The effect is shockingly bright color in your garden from a typically simple grass. ‘Fireworks' breaks color barriers with a deep maroon-purple center vein flanked by hot pink margins.

By the time autumn arrives, your picturesque grass adopts shades of deep purple, topped with decorative seeds of red/purple intensity. Delightful, blue-tinted foliage quickly bursts into bright shades of eye-catching red with this remarkably colorful...

We suggest when planting your newly purchased Mondo Grass plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

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. 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...

Use this plant in containers, in sunny borders, meadows, rock gardens, and foundation plantings. 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...

Lime-striped foliage all year! Do you want to add year-round motion and energy to your garden this year? Once you try it you will agree that it is such a great and adaptable plant.

Carex Bowles Golden has shimmering yellow leaves with dark green margins. Genus name from Latin means cutter in reference to the sharp leaves and stem edges (rushes are round but sedges have edges) found on most species' plants.

Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. Panicles fade to silver in fall, but remain showy throughout winter. It provides the strong narrow green leaves of Maiden Grass, but in a 3–4′ version.

Foliage has an overall silvery appearance. Elegant, arching white and green variegated leaves, this elegant ornamental grass is noted for its very narrow green leaves with white variegation on the margins, giving off an internal ‘light' affect.

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.

Plants spread slowly by short rhizomes. Where not evergreen, foliage should be cut to the ground and removed in late winter. This sedge is evergreen in the deep South, maintaining good foliage in both summer and winter.

Plant Patent PP13,008 issued September 24, 2002. Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clays present in much of the St. Louis area.

Miscanthus Gracillimus' is an old and very popular cultivar. Useful as a specimen, in the border, or for mass planting. Tolerates of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clay.

Panicum Shenandoah grows in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. In winter, the leaf color fades to beige; the blades persist and offer cover to birds. Panicles turn beige as the seeds mature in fall with the seed plumes persisting...

By late summer or autumn plants are crowned with buff colored seedheads. Foliage can be semi-evergreen or deciduous depending on the climate. Panicles are composed of 60-480 pale yellow or silvery whiskered spikelets.

It is a clump-forming, warm season grass which typically grows in an upright, vertical clump to 3′ tall (to 5′ when in flower). Generally best in full sun. It is useful for erosion control, rain gardens and areas with salt spray.

Sometimes, the growth is taller and longer with less than desirable branching when Nitrogen is deficient. When roots are burned, the first sign is often scorched edges on the foliage.

(Andropogon gerardii) Red October is no exception, creating a fiery red statement with its fall foliage colors. Deer tend to stay away and this grass will quickly become one of the focal points in your late season garden.

Best grown in sandy or rocky, dry to medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to light shade. Borders, cottage gardens or native plant areas. Tolerant of heat, humidity and drought, but generally grows taller with consistent moisture.

The yellow leaves have narrow green stripes. In St. Louis, the variegated striping appears gold in part shade. , commonly called Hakone grass, is a rhizomatous, shade-loving, deciduous perennial grass that is native both to moist mountain areas including...

Its common name is in obvious reference to the Argentine grasslands (the pampas) where it grows. , commonly called pampas grass, is native to Brazil, Argentina and Chile. In 1848, and for many years now has been grown as an ornamental plant in certain...

When dry, the pith could be lit at one end (sometimes both ends) and burned like a candle. Soft rush may be grown in tubs or containers sunk in the mud to control unwanted rhizome spread.

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Carex Blue Zinger reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts.

Small clumping grasses, such as dwarf varieties of silver grass, provide a lovely border between plant beds and walkways while small spreading grasses, such asMid-size grasses are used for vertical height and textures., for instance, is a mid-size, warm-season,...