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Pleioblastus pumilus

Dwarf bamboo, which is low-maintenance and evergreen, with deep green leaves and red-flushed canes. Plants are hardy and will last for many years. Invasive. Sun or semi shade. Hardy.
Eventual size: 40 – 80 cm
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Pleioblastus Pygmaeus ‘Distichus’

One of the smallest bamboos. The most noticeable characteristic of this bamboo is the very tough and erect leaf texture that very much look like little palm or fern leaves. Invasive, hardy.
Eventual size: 30-50 cm
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Sasa palmata

Vigorous small bamboo forming a thicket of erect stems to 3 m high bearing dark green leaves to 40cm in length, the tips and margins turning pale brown in winter, giving a variegated. Invasive. Grow in fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil, best in partial shade. Protect from cold drying winds.
Eventual size: 3 m
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Sasa tsuboiana

This Japanese bamboo has large dark green leaves and is an excellent choice for a mid-sized hedge. Does best in an area that gets some afternoon shade. Fairly fast spreading, uniform foliage. Protect from cold drying winds.
Eventual size: 1 to 1.5 m
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Sesleria Caerulea

Blue Moor-grass

S. caerulea is a compact, tufted evergreen grass with bluntly pointed, linear leaves, blue-green on the upper side, dark glossy green beneath; small, egg-shaped purplish flower heads open in spring, soon fading to pale buff. Chalk soil. Hardy, evergreen.
Eventual size: 30 to 50 cm
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Stipa Capillata

Feather Grass

Forming a dense, glossy green clump of foliage they bloom in summer with beautiful upright plumes. The hair-like awns are at first clear green, and as they mature they turn a beautiful silvery-white. The plants are easy to grow in moderately fertile, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Hardy.
Eventual size: 70 cm
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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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