Perennial Ornamental Grasses Zone 6

Is a low clumping European sedge. Bio-tone is a gardener's best friend and can help guarantee your success. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in.

Grows only 10'' tall making it perfect as a ground cover or small accent plant in your border garden. This plant offers the closest thing to a true black in the plant kingdom! It works wonderfully in combination with other plants serving to brighten the...

If I lose it, I won't worry because not too much money was invested.The venture with the Japanese sedge was successful. It flourished in the partly shady place I chose for it in the backyard.

Easy to grow and provides interest in all four seasons. 2009 Perennial of the Year. Richly golden variegated leaves form delicate looking, tough-as-nails mounded plants.

Dramatic in large dried arrangements. Stalks from early summer to mid-autumn. Long atop 6-7 ft. This sensuous ornamental grass has huge, silky, sand-pink plumes reaching 2 ft.

These grasses are easy to grow and provide interest in all four seasons. Hakonechloa Aureola, Eragrostis Purple Love Grass and Cortaderia Pink Pampas.

The flower spikes of this native grass come to life by creating a pink "cloud-like" effect on the planting area while in bloom. Easy to grow and provides interest in all four seasons.

Growing to 18" tall, the plants' tidy mounding habit make them good options for containers, small spaces and rock gardens. Evergold Japanese sedge springs up in gorgeous clumps of cascading, fine-textured foliage.

Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote a flush of beautiful flowers. A bright groundcover for a shady spot, Carex Ice Dance has long shiny leaves trimmed in bright white.

Drought and salt tolerant plants are native and deer resistant. The attractive airy seed heads are burgundy too, and start appearing as early as July. The earliest purple color on any perennial grass we have seen.

Group with other prairie plants such as echinacea, monarda and rudbeckia, to create your own modern meadow. Chosen especially for its “un-floppable” habit, this little bluestem adds some blue tones to the landscape along with fantastic native grass...

* Ornamental * Durable * Deer resistant * Great groundcover Try some today to begin enjoying its stellar qualities. It's drought resistant, so no need to water. Your Dwarf Mondo Grass is a grass similar to lawn grass, with a dark green color.

It flowers on new wood each year so you'll need to prune it back by about one-third in late fall or early spring. The long-lasting flowers are ideal for fresh or dried bouquets. ‘Zinfin Doll' is an early bloomer.

When it's time to harvest, leave the berries on the vine until they are bright red for the sweetest flavor. Grow in full sun, although some shade is tolerated, and the sprawling canes can be tied together to give a more upright form.

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 can grow.

It is a great source of vitamin C and has been used for antibacterial properties as well. It's also one of the most forgiving if you have non-fertile soil and it handles a zone 3 winter easily.

One Adagio Maiden Grass is a stunning centerpiece and standout specimen in your garden, but multiples are breathtakingly spectacular in masses. Just one will elevate your garden to designer status! Adagio swings on the scene in early spring with loads...

Not a big revolution. In autumn red flowers give way to buff-colored seed heads that hold through the winter. The inside foliage, near the center stays green which gives a neat two-tone effect.

If you live near the coast, ‘Fireworks' will grow without need to coddle it. This is a tough perennial grass that is easy to care for. The effect is shockingly bright color in your garden from a typically simple grass.

Hot Rod Switch Grass is a must-have for those spots in your yard where you'd like some year-round interest. Hot Rod Switch Grass stays true to its name as the “hot rod” of the grasses—ablaze in color from summer through fall.

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. Don't wait until we're sold out of Evercolor Everlite! They will go fast.

The bushy plumes are great as cut flowers if they are cut soon after they emerge. * Enormous Purple Plumes All Summer * Golden Foliage in Autumn * Deer Resistant * Great as foundation plantings

Whether your garden is rustic or formal, Evercolor Everlime will brighten it up all year. If you want easy to grow and low-maintenance, then you can't beat Everlime. It makes a magnificent ground cover or try it in your favorite container.

Insignificant flowers appear in May on inflorescences of staminate and pistulate spikes which are not showy but are noticeable and persist into July. The yellow seems to glow in partial 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. Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear.

Typically forms an upright, rounded clump of foliage growing 4-6′ tall. ‘Morning Light' tends to keep its upright shape better than some other cultivars and rarely flops. Miscanthus Morning Light is a grass cultivar that is noted for its very narrow...

Tiny pink-tinged flowers appear in tassel-like inflorescences above the foliage in late summer, gradually turning into creamy white plumes by fall as the seeds mature. Dwarf size facilitates use as a tall ground cover.