Ornamental Grasses Identification

Not a big revolution. The inside foliage, near the center stays green which gives a neat two-tone effect. But now we have a striking beauty – the Little Miss Maiden Grass (Miscanthus sinensis ‘Little Miss') – that has all of the great traits of...

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. Treat ‘Fireworks' like you would any ornamental grass, shearing it down to the...

It has an upright habit, with a gentle cascading effect (to the outside foliage), lending a touch of additional elegance to its form. Even deer tend to leave it alone! Hot Rod is spectacular when planted en masse or used as a border.

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.

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 color, all season long.

If you want easy to grow and low-maintenance, then you can't beat Everlime. It forms a neat and easily controlled mound that looks fantastic in a row along the edge of a planter or in masses, filling in large beds under trees.

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. The golden color of this cultivar casts a reflection on ponds and streams and will reflect light.

Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. ‘Yaku Jima' is sometimes described in commerce as being a dwarf form of Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.

Best in full sun. Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to provide protection for the crowns. Tiny reddish-copper flowers appear in long tassel-like inflorescences above the foliage in mid to late September, gradually...

Clumps slowly expand in circumference by short rhizomes, but retain tight clump shape. Accent, specimen, grouping or mass. Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.

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. Foliage color is richer in part shade than in sun.

Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Tiny flowers emerge gray-purple with the plumes having an overall wine-purple coloration. Clumps slowly expand in circumference by short rhizomes, but retain tight...

The foliage dries and turns tan-bronze for the winter. Miscanthus gracillimus grass is noted for its narrow green leaves with a silver midrib which form a substantial, rounded, arching clump of foliage typically growing 4-6′ tall (to 8′ when in flower).

This ornamental switch grass cultivar features some of the best burgundy-red foliage of the many panicum cultivars currently available in commerce. Perfect for use in rain gardens, and provides winter interest in any situation.

The pale silvery green blades are very mobile with a tendency to wave in the slightest breeze. Plants should be groomed or cut to the ground in early spring to remove tattered foliage and make way for new foliage.

It is a clump-forming, warm season grass which typically grows in an upright, vertical clump to 3′ tall (to 5′ when in flower). Grows primarily in clumps, but may infrequently spread by rhizomes.

To lessen the mess of long grass blades spilling throughout your garden, use this quick and easy technique for cutting back ornamental grasses. When fertilizing grasses grown in containers on the patio, be careful to apply a fertilizer that will not burn...

(Andropogon gerardii) Who doesn't love the ever-changing colors and texture that Ornamental Grasses bring to the garden? Red October is no exception, creating a fiery red statement with its fall foliage colors.

It is the fall flowering, however, that most distinguishes this grass. Its delicate pink plume seed heads appear in late summer and completely envelop the foliage. Tolerates poor soils.

Yellow-green flowers appear in loose, nodding panicles in mid-summer. Gracefully arching, linear-lanceolate, bright green leaves (to 10″ long and 3/8″ wide) form dense, spreading, cascading mounds to 12-18″ tall and to 24″ wide.

, 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 southern and western parts of the U.S. It has also been grown commercially for harvest of its large...

Easily grown in moist to wet soils, including standing water to 4” deep, in full sun locations. The plant leaves are reduced to bladeless sheathing at the stem bases. In St. Louis, clumps die to the ground in winter.

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 which more times than not will be hard and compacted.

Most ornamental grasses are well suited to full sun, but many varieties also thrive in shade. Ornamental grasses add a softer, more natural feel to borders. Small clumping grasses, such as dwarf varieties of silver grass, provide a lovely border between...

Avoid any more fertilizer for the rest of the year.Another reason your ornamental grass may flop over is that it has grown too big. Most of these grasses need very little care and thrive on neglect, so they're perfect for even novice gardeners to grow.

By doing this, you can increase your stock of ornamental grasses every few years. 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 moisture.Divided...

Mounds of narrow, elegantly arching leaves grow to 2' tall. 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...