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Fireworks Grass
Prices start at : 33.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

The effect is shockingly bright color in your garden from a typically simple grass. Treat ‘Fireworks' like you would any ornamental grass, shearing it down to the ground in late fall or early spring.
  • Botanical Name: Pennisetum setaceum 'Fireworks'
  • Soil Type: Widely Adaptable
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Growth Rate: Medium
  • Mature Spread: 24 inches
Nebraska
Omaha
Hot Rod Switch Grass
Prices start at : 35.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

By the time autumn arrives, your picturesque grass adopts shades of deep purple, topped with decorative seeds of red/purple intensity. Even deer tend to leave it alone! Hot Rod is spectacular when planted en masse or used as a border.
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun
  • Foliage: Blue-Green Maturing to Maroon
  • Mature Height: 36 - 48 inches
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Mature Spread: 30 - 36 inches
  • Fall Color: Red
Nebraska
Omaha
EverColor Everlite Variegated Sedge Grass
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / Quart Container

Don't wait until we're sold out of Evercolor Everlite! They will go fast. 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...
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
  • Botanical Name: Carex oshimensis ‘Everlite'
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Moisture: Water carefully to establish, and as needed during drier periods
  • Mature Spread: 8 - 10 inches
  • Growth Rate: Medium
Nebraska
Omaha
Redhead Fountain Grass
Prices start at : 39.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

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.
  • Flower Color: Mahogany, Red Seed Head
  • Mature Height: 2 - 3 feet
  • Soil Type: Widely Adaptable
  • Botanical Name: Pennisetum 'Redhead'
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
Nebraska
Omaha
EverColor Everlime Variegated Sedge Grass
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / Quart Container

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. Nothing does that as well as grasses and sedges. Lime-striped foliage all year! Do you want to add year-round motion and...
  • Soil Type: Rich, evenly moist, well drained soils best
  • Mature Height: 12 - 15 inches
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Full Shade, Partial Sun
  • Foliage Color: Green with lime colored margins
  • Botanical Name: Carex oshimensis 'Everlime'
  • Mature Spread: 1 - 4 feet
Nebraska
Omaha
Adagio Grass
Prices start at : 27.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

Once you see Adagio Maiden Grass backlit by the sun on a crisp fall evening, though, you will know what's been missing. Watch them sing by your evergreens. Tons of showy flower plumes emerge above the foliage in rustic bronze shades that fade to pink...
  • Moisture: Moderate
  • Flower Color: White
  • Mature Height: 3 - 5 feet
  • Mature Spread: 2 - 3 feet
  • Soil Type: Well Drained
Nebraska
Omaha
Legacy Buffalo Grass Plugs
Prices start at : 67.45 USD / 72 Plug Tray

It has a dark blue-green color and only grows 3 to 5 inches high. An Established Lawn in as Little as 90 Days! You will receive Accelerated Growth Plugs, the economical way to a buffalo grass lawn.
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
  • Mature Height: 3 - 5 inches
  • Mature Spread: 12 - 18 inches
  • Foliage: Dark Blue Green
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
Nebraska
Omaha
UC Verde Buffalo Grass Plugs
Prices start at : 62.96 USD / 72 Plug Tray

UC Verde buffalo grass is the most heat tolerant. These varieties thrive on a fraction of the amount of water needed for most turf grasses. Buffalo grass varieties give up to a 75% reduction in water consumption, therefore saving you money.
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
  • Mature Spread: 12 - 18 inches
  • Growth Rate: Fast
  • Mature Height: 5 - 8 inches
Nebraska
Omaha
The Prairie from Late Summer through Fall
The leaves are wide and covered with a soft fuzz that give it an overall gray appearance, which accounts for its also being called the Ashy Sunflower. The color is usually an attractive indigo, borne on stems that may be over two feet tall.
California
El Segundo
Dwarf Mondo Grass
Prices start at : 39.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

As it grows it abandons its erect stance and adopts a rather elegant manner, slightly bowing for a gentle, soft appearance. 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.
  • Soil Type: Widely Adaptable
  • Botanical Name: Ophiopogon japonicus 'Nana'
  • Fall Color: Evergreen
  • Mature Spread: 6 - 12 inches
  • Growth Rate: Fast
  • Foliage: Green
Nebraska
Omaha
The Prairie in Summer
Prairie gardeners should certainly consider this one.There are many other individual species of forbs at home on the prairie, although they may not belong to the more important families of prairie plants.A low-growing plant with white flowers in early...
California
El Segundo
Little Miss Maiden Grass
Prices start at : 27.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

Wait until you see it backlit by the sun. If you have to garden small, be sure to go big! Order your own Little Miss Maiden Grass today. Not a big revolution. The inside foliage, near the center stays green which gives a neat two-tone effect.
  • Soil Type: Well Drained
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Mature Height: 2 - 3 feet
  • Foliage Color: Purple
  • Growth Rate: Fast
  • Mature Spread: 1 - 4 feet
Nebraska
Omaha
The Prairie in Spring
Kirt Prairie of the College of DuPage. The bright yellow centers develop into an interesting feathery seedhead.Part of the rose family. Even where the prairie is not burned, there is little flowering to see in springtime, and to spot it you have to closely...
California
El Segundo
Horse Quality Timothy
Price : CALL

$9.00 per bale delivered. 50lb tightly bound bales. Beautiful horse quality hay. 12 flakes average per bale. Delivery charge may increase over 20 miles away from Farm. No kicker bales!
Hanover
Rockville
Gold Dew Tufted Hair Grass
Prices start at : 39.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

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.
  • Flower Color: Golden Yellow
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun
  • Mature Height: 12 - 24 inches
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Soil Type: Widely Adaptable
  • Foliage: Green
Nebraska
Omaha
Mexican Feather Grass (Stipa, Nasella)
Prices start at : 16.95 USD / 1 GAL

Is a swaying fine textured clump forming grass. The pale silvery green blades are very mobile with a tendency to wave in the slightest breeze. Panicles are composed of 60-480 pale yellow or silvery whiskered spikelets.
Maryland
Bowie
Carex Bowles Golden
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 GAL

Insignificant flowers appear in May on inflorescences of staminate and pistulate spikes which are not showy but are noticeable and persist into July. Cultivars of this species are superior garden plants to the species.
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Yaku Jima
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / 3 GAL

It provides the strong narrow green leaves of Maiden Grass, but in a 3–4′ version. Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear. Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade.
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Morning Light Maiden Grass
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 GAL

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.
Maryland
Bowie
Blazing-Star
Prices start at : 2 USD

(Perennial) Each packet contains approximately 250 seeds. Sow indoors under lights 4- to 8-weeks before the last frost date of spring or direct sow in sunny locations after temperatures have warmed.
  • brand: Seed Savers Exchange
Montana
Bozeman
Black-Eyed Susan
Prices start at : 2 USD

A true workhorse, and easy to start from seed, each plant will produce hundreds of blossoms late into the growing season. Start indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost. Perfect for containers, garden trellises and hanging baskets! (Annual in northern climates)...
  • brand: Seed Savers Exchange
Montana
Bozeman
Miscanthus Adagio Maiden Grass
Prices start at : 24.95 USD / 3 GAL

Use this grass a a specimen, in borders, meadow or wild gardens and naturalized areas. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clays, it also loves the heat and humidity ofour summers.
Maryland
Bowie
Carex Evergold
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 Gal

Plants thrive in moist soils, but also perform well in average garden soils, with better tolerance for periods of dryness than most sedges have. Plants are evergreen throughout most of their growing range.
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Little Zebra (Dwarf Maiden Grass)
Prices start at : 12.95 USD / 1 GAL

Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear. Perfect for smaller gardens. Attractive reddish plumes rise one foot above the foliage in late summer. Miscanthus Little Zebra makes a tidy, compact mound of green foliage with prominent,...
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Gracillimus (Maiden Grass)
Prices start at : 16.95 USD / 1 Gal

Best in full sun. They stay attractive from summer right through the winter. They are a mounding grass with gracefully flowing narrow green foliage. A blaqze of coppery-pink plumes is the perfect addition to any fall garden.
Maryland
Bowie
Golden Japanese Forest Grass (Hakonechloa m. ‘Aureola\')
Prices start at : 24.95 USD / 1 Gal

In St. Louis, the variegated striping appears gold in part shade. Tolerates close to full shade, particularly in the hot summer climates of the deep South. Clumps spread by rhizomes, but are not considered to be invasive.
Maryland
Bowie
Panicum Shenandoah (Red Switchgrass)
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 GAL

Perfect for grouping in sun and ideal for attracting birds. This ornamental switch grass cultivar features some of the best burgundy-red foliage of the many panicum cultivars currently available in commerce.
Maryland
Bowie