Ornamental Grasses In Pots

Its small size is just right for decorative ceramic pots or balcony window boxes. 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...

If you live near the coast, ‘Fireworks' will grow without need to coddle it. Drought and disease don't bother it once it is established and salt air doesn't even phase it. ‘Fireworks' breaks color barriers with a deep maroon-purple center vein flanked...

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

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. (It makes a BIG impact in a SMALL garden! Even if you only have a tiny spot like a...

'Red Head' looks great in late-season containers. The bushy plumes are great as cut flowers if they are cut soon after they emerge. This plant has no serious insect or disease problems and is not usually appealing to deer.

One of the very best is Evercolor Everlime Carex (Carex oshimensis ‘Everlime'). 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.

This beautiful sedge's vivid foliage adds bright color to the garden. It reflects its beautiful color on ponds and streams. Insignificant flowers appear in May on inflorescences of staminate and pistulate spikes which are not showy but are noticeable...

It achieves a thick, full clump of billowing, arched foliage quickly, and silver flowers in August. It typically grows in a clump to 3-4' tall. ‘Yaku Jima' is sometimes described in commerce as being a dwarf form of Easily grown in average, medium moisture,...

Morning Light Maiden Grass forms a graceful, upright mound of narrow green foliage, each leaf neatly edged in creamy-white. Miscanthus Morning Light is a grass cultivar that is noted for its very narrow green leaves with white variegation on the margins.

Miscanthus Adagio is a dwarf grass cultivar which is one of the shortest of the many Miscanthus cultivars available in commerce today. Fast-growing, graceful, foliage. Use this grass a a specimen, in borders, meadow or wild gardens and naturalized areas.

Brightly variegated foliage in yellow and green of Carex Evergold features a tight fountain-like habit, even in the shade. , commonly known as Oshima kan suge, is a fine-textured sedge that typically grows in a low, grass-like mounded clump to 10-16”...

Tiny flowers emerge gray-purple with the plumes having an overall wine-purple coloration. ‘Little Zebra', sometimes commonly called dwarf zebra grass, is a compact cultivar that typically grows in a clump to 3-4' tall and to 2-3' wide.

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).

Tolerates all types of soil. Will grow in part shade, but begins to lose its columnar form in too much shade, growing more openly and possibly falling over. The foliage of switch grass Panicum Shenandoah emerges bluish-green but rapidly turns burgundy-red...

Blooming plants are about 1-2' tall and 1' wide. Foliage is less than 1/8” wide and up to 12” long. The crisp green blades are arching and extremely narrow. Leaves are glossy and usually rolled into a threadlike cylinder.

Looks great combined with Black-eyed Susan. Easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. Grows primarily in clumps, but may infrequently spread by rhizomes.

A very large established Pennisetum Hameln in the ground will take 2 – 3 cups of spread around the drip line of the foliage (not next to the base). Fertilizing at this time may stimulate a flush of tender new growth that will be too soft to withstand...

We recommend planting Red October in almost any sunny spot with well-draining soil. Deer tend to stay away and this grass will quickly become one of the focal points in your late season garden.

Add texture, movement and mass to your landscape with Pink Muhly Grass, an easy to grow, native ornamental grass. Mass for cover of areas with poor soils. Borders, cottage gardens or native plant areas.

This grass is made for partial shade. The yellow leaves have narrow green stripes. Leaves have a papery texture resembling the leaves of some types of bamboo. Trim foliage to the ground in late winter to early spring before the new shoots emerge.

Dwarf Pampas Grass is one of the most hardy and showy forms of pampas grass featuring silvery-cream, silky plumes on a short, compact habit. It was planted around the world in Victorian times, and today is considered to be one of the most popular of the...

The plant leaves are reduced to bladeless sheathing at the stem bases. Soft rush is native to North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. When dry, the pith could be lit at one end (sometimes both ends) and burned like a candle.

Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth.

The fine textured grasses, for example, can create dramatic contrast within borders when placed next to other broad-shaped foliage plants and flowers.There are practical reasons for adding ornamental grasses to borders.wait until the weather starts warming...

If you have a habit of fertilizing your ornamental plants on a regular basis, you'll be causing the problem you're trying to avoid. Give these plants one application offirst thing in the spring just as the grass blades begin to sprout.

Produce not only graceful beauty but a symphony of soothing sound. Some notes on how to propagate ornamental grass will get you on your way to more free plants and a tumult of waving blades and gentle landscape movement.I have a little area I call my...

Can be used in rain gardens. Good for cut arrangements. Rose Fountain Grass is an exciting addition to any landscape. Beautiful rose-copper flower plumes begin their entrance in July with new seed heads appearing all the way into September! Rose Fountain...