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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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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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Pennisetum orientale ‘Flamingo’
Fountain Grass
Very showy grass that is exceptionally floriferous. Fountains of gray green foliage and whitish inflorescences. Arching rose-pink seed heads. All soils but not too dry. Reasonably hardy.
Eventual size: 70-100 cm
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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
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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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