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Pennisetum Alopecuroides ‘Viridescens’
Chinese Fountain Grass
This clump forming, dense evergreen grass forms glossy, green leaves which turn brown during autumn. In late summer and early autumn it produces purple/black flower spikes.
Well drained soil. Hardy but not evergreen.
Eventual size: 75 cm
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Helictotrichon sempervirens
Blue oat grass
H. sempervirens is a dense tufted evergreen grass with rather rigid blue-grey leaves to 23cm in length. Small, straw-coloured spikelets are borne in large open panicles on erect stems to 1.5 m in height. Hardy.
Eventual size: 1 to 1.5 m
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Carex Foliosissima ‘Irish Green’
Sedge
Sedge ‘Irish Green’ is semi-evergreen and produces medium green leaves. The plant produces numerous brown flowers from May to June. Moist but well-drained soil.
Eventual size: 20 to 30 cm
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Carex Morrowii ‘Ice Dance’
Japanese sedge
‘Ice Dance’ is an evergreen sedge forming a low, slow-spreading tufted mound. The green, glossy leaves are edged with white and small, inconspicuous brown flower spikes appear in late spring. Moist but well-drained.
Eventual size: 40 to 60 cm
Position:
Pennisetum messiacum ‘Red Bunny Tails’
Fountain Grass
Compact perennial grass with arching bluegreen linear leaves and pink to redbrown flower plumes in late summer. All soils. Reasonably hardy.
Eventual size: 70 cm
Position:
Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Niger’
Black Snake Beard
Evergreen soil covering plant that spreads through root shootsbut isn’t aggressive. Sword-shaped, deep black purple leaves. The leaf feels leathery due to the wax layer. Small, inconspicuous, lilac flowers in late spring, and small bells in summer.
Eventual size: 20 to 30 cm
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