Short Ornamental Grasses

* Very easy care * Great for containers and small gardens * Bird friendly, deer resistant * Fast growing The inside foliage, near the center stays green which gives a neat two-tone effect.

Treat ‘Fireworks' like you would any ornamental grass, shearing it down to the ground in late fall or early spring. It looks great with prairie-style companions (Coreposis ‘Moonbeam' or Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm' come to mind) or in modern gardens where...

Even deer tend to leave it alone! Hot Rod is spectacular when planted en masse or used as a border. Your Hot Rod Switch Grass is a perennial grass that will grow 36-42 inches in height, with a 24-inch spread when mature.

It looks stunning with dark-colored evergreens or the bright flowers of a perennial border. 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.

Use this plant in containers, in sunny borders, meadows, rock gardens, and foundation plantings. In the fall the leaves turn gold in color. Smoky Rose Color Plumes That Last Months! The Ornamental Fountain Grass 'Redhead Fountain Grass', 'Pennisetum 'Redhead',...

Whether your garden is rustic or formal, Evercolor Everlime will brighten it up all year. It works equally well in sun or shade and is drought and deer resistant once it is established.

Can also be grown in average garden soil, albeit less vigorously, but soil must not be allowed to dry out. Grass-like, sharply keeled, dark green leaves are up to 30″ long. The golden color of this cultivar casts a reflection on ponds and streams and...

Tiny buffy colored flowers with red tinges emerge in fluffy panicles above the foliage in August-September. Miscanthus Yaku Jima. Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to provide protection for the crowns.

Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear. Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Miscanthus Morning Light is a somewhat smaller, more fine-textured version of the popular Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil...

Borders, meadows, wild gardens, cottage gardens, naturalized areas or pond/water garden peripheries. Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear. Best in full sun.

It can also be grown in low spots or along ponds or streams but is equally at home in the rock garden or spilling over a rocky slope. Foliage color is richer in part shade than in sun.

As seeds begin to form, the flower/seed plumes fade to creamy tan, often providing some winter interest. Flowers appear in corymbose panicles of 10-13 racemes (each to 6” long) above the foliage in late summer.

Foliage turns yellowish after frost, but quickly fades to straw-beige by winter. Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear. Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to provide protection...

This ornamental switch grass cultivar features some of the best burgundy-red foliage of the many panicum cultivars currently available in commerce. Panicles turn beige as the seeds mature in fall with the seed plumes persisting well into winter.

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. No other grass exhibits quite the refinement of texture as this species.

Tends to flop in rich soils. Switch grasses are an important wildlife cover in native, natural areas. Foliage clump is topped in mid-summer by finely-textured, pink-tinged, branched flower panicles which hover over the foliage like an airy cloud.

Elements such as Magnesium, Sulfur, Calcium, Iron, Manganese, Copper, Zinc, Boron, and Molybdenum play very important roles in providing plants with adequate nutrition. Fall is the time for Pennisetums to begin preparing for dormancy.

Who doesn't love the ever-changing colors and texture that Ornamental Grasses bring to the garden? 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...

Plant en masse, in a patio container or place them between shrubs in the landscape. Tan seed plumes remain attractive in winter. It is native to prairies, pine barrens, and open woodlands from Massachusetts to Kansas south to Florida and Texas.

Other common names include forest grass and Japanese forest grass. Leaf variegation color is affected by the amount of sun exposure and the growing climate. The yellow leaves have narrow green stripes.

It thrives in hot, full sun exposures and is especially useful as a specimen grass.This variety is very drought resistant once established. Cut foliage back to the ground in late winter.

Insignificant, tiny, yellowish-green to pale brown flowers appear in clusters (many flowered cymes) that emerge on the side of the stems slightly below the stem tips in summer. Soft rush is one of the true rushes.

Its foliage is evergreen or semi-evergreen with fine texture and a lovely steely blue color. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects.

Most are vigorous growers, requiring minimal care. These plants also make good accent plants among other border plants.When choosing ornamental grasses for borders, you should become familiar with their growing requirements as well as their characteristics.

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. Once they grow to an overly large size, the sheer weight of the mass of grass blades can cause the entire plant to bend...

Watch carefully for stress from sun, insects and diseases, like fungal issues. Variegated ornamental grass propagation will result in plain leaves, unlike the parent plant. A faster and more reliable method for propagation of ornamental grasses is through...

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 vigorous performance.