Ornamental grasses – Page 2

Carex Testacea ‘Prairie Fire’

Orange sedge

Grass-like perennial. Evergreen, ornamental grass. Upright, slender, green-bronze floliage is tipped with orange. Thrives in full sun or light shade, tolerates heat and even drought. Not too much humidity.
Eventual size: 40 to 60 cm
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Deschampsia Cespitosa

Tufted hair grass

D. cespitosa is an evergreen grass forming a neat tussock of narrow, leathery, dark green leaves to 60cm long, with feathery panicles of silvery-purple flowers on arching stems in summer. Moist but well-drained soil. Hardy.
Eventual size: 1.5 to 2 m
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Deschampsia Cespitosa ‘Goldschleier’

Tufted hair grass

‘Goldschleier’ is a tuft-forming evergreen perennial with dark, bluish-green leaves. It produces golden-yellow flowers with a silvery sheen from late spring to summer that are followed by long-lasting plumes giving good autumn display. Well-drained, Moist but well-drained soil. Hardy.
Eventual size: 1 to 1.2 m
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Festuca Gautieri ‘Pic Carlit’

Fescue

Small cushions of very fine, densely growing green leaves, becoming greener in winter. Evergreen. All soils.
Eventual size: 30 to 40 cm
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Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’

Blue fescue

Elijah Blue’ forms small cushions of very fine, inrolled, intensely ice-blue leaves, becoming greener in winter. From late spring to summer it bears narrow, bristly blue-green flower plumes that turn golden-brown. Attract butterflies. Well-drained, Moist but well-drained soil.
Eventual size: 15 to 30 cm
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Festuca glauca ‘Golden Toupee’

Blue fescue

‘Golden Toupee’ is a compact, mound-forming deciduous grass with needle-like leaves that are bright yellow in spring, later becoming grey-green. Evergreen. Attract butterflies.
Well drained soil.
Eventual size: 20 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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Imperata Cylindrica ‘Red Baron’

Japanese blood grass

‘Red Baron’ is a deciduous grass forming a loose clump of erect, linear green leaves strongly suffused with deep red, and narrow silvery flower panicles in late summer. Medium hardy. Well-drained, Moist but well-drained soil.
Eventual size: 30 – 50 cm
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Leymus arenarius ‘Blue Dune’

Blue Lyme Grass

This bright blue, cool-season ornamental grass maintains its coloring throughout the growing season. In spring, straw-colored seed heads appear on stalks. Hardy and evergreen. Invasive. Dry, sandy soil.
Eventual size: 80 cm
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Liriope Muscari ‘Big Blue’

Big blue lilyturf

L. muscari is an evergreen tuberous perennial forming a dense clump of narrow, arching, leathery, dark green leaves, with small violet-purple flowers carried in dense, erect spikes to 30cm in height in autumn, followed by black berries. Excellent ground cover. Hardy.
Eventual size: 30 cm
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Miscanthus Floridulus Giganteus

Giant Silvergrass

This is a grass of large proportions, forming very tall clumps of green leaves, their tips arching gracefully in layers. Useful as a living screen or hedge, bearing soft-pink plumes in the fall. The corn-like stalks turn creamy tan in winter. Clumps are large, but well behaved and not invasive. Moist but well-drained rich soil. Hardy.
Eventual size: 2.5 to 4 m
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Miscanthus sinensis ‘Adagio’

Eulalia

‘Adagio’ is a an elegant, clump-forming deciduous grass to 1.2 m tall, with long, narrow, grey-green, arching leaves that turn orange and yellow in autumn. Pink-tinged, tassel-like flower heads in summer turn creamy-white in autumn. Hardy but not evergreen. Moist but well-drained soil.
Eventual size: 1 to 1.2 m
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