Ornamental Grasses For Sun

Wait until you see it backlit by the sun. Its small size is just right for decorative ceramic pots or balcony window boxes. * Very easy care * Great for containers and small gardens * Bird friendly, deer resistant * Fast growing

Use fountain grass to add texture and dimension to your perennial beds and borders. This is a tough perennial grass that is easy to care for. In late summer it will shoot up soft, fluffy ‘foxtails' blooms that will add even greater interest.

The long, slender blades of Hot Rod reach up tall and straight, with an additional 6 inches added once it's whimsical, airy seeds make an appearance. Hot Rod Switch Grass stays true to its name as the “hot rod” of the grasses—ablaze in color from...

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 excitement to your tired garden and we have just the thing for...

The deep purple buds mature to smoky purple plumes. Use this plant in containers, in sunny borders, meadows, rock gardens, and foundation plantings. 'Red Head' looks great in late-season containers.

It will bring light and texture to any garden combo. It stands out from other carex with eye-catching spring-green blades with a lime-green edge. It works equally well in sun or shade and is drought and deer resistant once it is established.

Grass-like, sharply keeled, dark green leaves are up to 30″ long. The yellow seems to glow in partial shade. Foliage promptly turns yellow after frost. Carex Bowles Golden has shimmering yellow leaves with dark green margins.

Best in full sun. 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.

Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to provide protection for the crowns. Morning Light Maiden Grass forms a graceful, upright mound of narrow green foliage, each leaf neatly edged in creamy-white.

Accent, specimen, grouping or mass. Miscanthus Adagio is a dwarf grass cultivar which is one of the shortest of the many Miscanthus cultivars available in commerce today. Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear.

Foliage color is richer in part shade than in sun. Add texture to your landscape with this lovely mounding grass. Plants generally dislike hot and humid summer climates. Plants spread slowly by short rhizomes.

Perfect for smaller gardens. Foliage fades to tan after frost. Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Miscanthus Little Zebra makes a tidy, compact mound of green foliage with prominent, yellow horizontal banding that holds well through the summer.

They stay attractive from summer right through the winter. Tiny reddish-copper flowers appear in tassel-like inflorescences above the foliage in late September, gradually turning into silvery white plumes as the seeds mature.

Shenandoah's fantastic steel blue upright foliage slowly adds a dose of burgundy that increases as the season progresses. Cut back clumps to the ground in late winter to early spring.

No other grass exhibits quite the refinement of texture as this species. Leaves are glossy and usually rolled into a threadlike cylinder. Is a swaying fine textured clump forming grass.

Panicum Heavy Metal is a switchgrass cultivar which features metallic-blue foliage and a columnar form. Seed plumes persist well into winter providing visual interest as well as food for birds.

When roots are burned, the first sign is often scorched edges on the foliage. Warm season grasses do not begin to show growth until the weather becomes stable and the soils warm. When fertilizing grasses grown in containers on the patio, be careful to...

Beginning as a gray-blue in spring, deepening to blue-green in summer, and then dramatically turning a brilliant scarlet-red come fall, this grass brings some serious drama! The perfect ornamental grass to add winter interest, 'Red October' is both deer...

Remove spent flowers after blooming. Felix Crousse Peony produces double magenta-red blooms which are highly fragrant and attract butterflies. Glossy green foliage is divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets.

Glossy green foliage is divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets. Older proven variety that's still quite popular! The Peony is an extremely long lived, hardy, shrub-like plant. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced...

Its delicate pink plume seed heads appear in late summer and completely envelop the foliage. Add texture, movement and mass to your landscape with Pink Muhly Grass, an easy to grow, native ornamental grass.

Cut foliage to the ground and remove from the garden in fall after frost. The classic double red Peony, this early-season bloomer produces huge, deep red blooms that are showstoppers in the garden and in bouquets.

A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. This is not to be rushed.

Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days. Once they're established, they're as hardy and dependable as oaks, creating a fantastic season of bloom in your yard year after year.

Trim foliage to the ground in late winter to early spring before the new shoots emerge. The arching flow of the leaves gives a sense of movement, much like a cascading waterfall. Plant foliage will lose color intensity (particularly on variegated leaf...

Cut foliage back to the ground in late winter. Plumes and blue-green leaves are both great for cutting and drying. Female plants produce prodigious amounts of seed and can self-seed freely, often resulting in naturalization that displaces valuable native...

It is a native plant commonly found in stream margins, ponds, wet depressions in fields, and in roadside ditches. Foliage turns yellow in fall before browning up for winter. Plants will also naturalize by self-seeding.