Ornamental grasses – Page 6

Stipa Gigantea

Golden Oats

S. gigantea is a robust tufted evergreen grass to 2m, with arching linear green leaves and large panicles of oat-like, long-awned purplish flowers which ripen to gold. Moist but well-drained soil. Hardly but rarely evergreen.
Eventual size: 1.8 to 2.5 m
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Stipa Tenuifolia

Mexican Feathergrass

S. tenuifolia is a deciduous grass to 1 m, forming a compact upright tuft of thread-like leaves, with narrow, arching, feathery flowering panicles in summer. Moist but well-drained soil. Hardy.
Eventual size: 0.5 m to 1 m
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Stipa Tenuissima

Mexican feathergrass

S. tenuissima is a deciduous grass to 60 cm, forming a compact upright tuft of thread-like leaves, with narrow, arching, feathery flowering panicles in summer. Hardy.
Eventual size: 60 cm
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Stipa Tenuissima ‘Ponytails’

Ponytail Grass

A deciduous grass to 80 cm, forming a compact upright tuft of thread-like leaves, with narrow, arching, feathery flowering panicles in summer. Loose tufts of fluffy delicate green leaves wave and flutter in the breeze, resembling an elven shaving brush. Hardy but not evergreen.
Full sun, dry, well-drained soil.
Eventual size: 80 cm
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