Where To Buy Ornamental Grasses

As the summer wears on the outer foliage turns brilliant red and purple that just intensifies in the fall. Not a big revolution. With so many people moving from the suburbs back into urban spaces, there is a trend of finding beautiful small – even dwarf...

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. In late summer it will shoot up soft, fluffy ‘foxtails' blooms that will add...

It has an upright habit, with a gentle cascading effect (to the outside foliage), lending a touch of additional elegance to its form. It's drought tolerant and generally carefree. Hot Rod Switch Grass stays true to its name as the “hot rod” of the...

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The deep purple buds mature to smoky purple plumes. 'Red Head' begins to show its enormous bottlebrush plumes in mid to late summer. 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. Evercolor Everlime keeps its shape and color all year, being cold hardy up to zone 5. It stands out from other carex with eye-catching spring-green blades with a...

The golden color of this cultivar casts a reflection on ponds and streams and will reflect light. Cultivars of this species are superior garden plants to the species. Commonly called tufted sedge.

Miscanthus Yaku Jima. Leaf blades (to 3/8” wide) are green and arch gracefully downward. Panicles fade to silver in fall, but remain showy throughout winter. Foliage should be left standing throughout the winter for visual interest and to provide protection...

Prefers moist soils. Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Not much fall color, with blades eventually turning straw-beige by winter. ‘Morning Light' tends to keep its upright shape better than some other cultivars and rarely flops.

Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear. Foliage and flower plumes persist well into winter providing good winter interest.

This sedge is evergreen in the deep South, maintaining good foliage in both summer and winter. Plants are evergreen throughout most of their growing range. Plants tend to languish in full shade.

Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. Clumps slowly expand in circumference by short rhizomes, but retain tight clump shape. Foliage fades to tan after frost.

Useful as a specimen, in the border, or for mass planting. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clays present in much of the St. Louis area.

Foliage also turns beige in fall and provides good winter interest. In winter, the leaf color fades to beige; the blades persist and offer cover to birds. Prefers Full sun to bring out the best red color.

Plants adapt to a wide range of conditions – moderate salinity, drought, slightly acid or alkaline pH and heavy clay or sandy soil. Foliage can be semi-evergreen or deciduous depending on the climate.

Switch grasses are an important wildlife cover in native, natural areas. Panicum Heavy Metal tolerates wide range of soils, including dry ones, but prefers moist, sandy or clay soils.

As mentioned a minimun of one spring application of a balanced fertilizer should be your minimum goal. With its green foliage, it is the perfect plant to use as a specimen or plant en masse to provide a bold wave of foliage that moves with the summer...

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 some serious drama! The perfect ornamental grass to add winter interest, 'Red October' is both deer...

Glossy, wiry, thread-like, dark green leaves and stems form an attractive basal clump to 2' tall. Tan seed plumes remain attractive in winter. Tolerant of heat, humidity and drought, but generally grows taller with consistent moisture.

The yellow leaves have narrow green stripes. Golden Japanese Forest Grass is Best grown in humusy, consistently moist, well-drained soils in part shade. Yellow-green flowers appear in loose, nodding panicles in mid-summer.

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 flower plumes for use in dried arrangements.

Soft rush may be grown in tubs or containers sunk in the mud to control unwanted rhizome spread. In St. Louis, clumps die to the ground in winter. Foliage turns yellow in fall before browning up for winter.

Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger foliage. Carex Blue Zinger reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts.

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 Grass is a very easy plant to grow and is known for...

Features grass-like, stiff leaves (1/2″ wide to 12″ long) which are dark green in the center with clean white borders. For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on.

Drought resistant. Plant Blue Festuca for a real attention-getter in your lawn. Quite ornamental. Blue Festuca is a hardy, rapidly multiplying, year round ground cover. Grows in grassy, tuft-like clumps.

Purple Majesty F1 Hybrid ornamental millet features a corn-like plant that grows 4' to 5' tall. (Pennisetum glaucum) 72”. Young plants are green. Foliage turns purple when moved from greenhouse to full sun.