Ornamental Grasses


 
 
Karl Foerster Grass

Karl Foerster Grass

Calamagrostis acutiflora ‘Karl Forester’

Height: 5’
Spread: 18-24”
Light: Full Sun

‘Karl Foerster’, is a beautiful
upright grass. ‘Karl Forester’ is
a cool season grower with dark
green, shiny foliage that appears in early spring and lasts until late fall. The flowers appear in June, which is earlier than many other ornamental grasses.

Elijah Blue Grass

Elijah Blue Grass

Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’

Height: 12-16”
Spread: 24”
Light: Full Sun to Partial Shade

This is one of the finest textured
fescues available with the hairlike foliage dancing in the slightest breeze. The foliage is a steel gray-blue color and is clump forming.

Blue Oat Grass

Blue Oat Grass

Helictotrichon sempervirens

Height: 36”
Spread: 60”
Light: Full Sun

Blue Oat Grass is a cool season,
clump-forming grass with steel-blue foliage. The neat, bristly
mounds make an attractive ornamental plant. It makes a nice addition to the perennial border.

Gracillimus Maiden Grass

Gracillimus Maiden Grass

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’

Height: 8’
Spread: 7’
Light: Full sun

Feathery copper-colored plumes cover the plant by mid-fall. Upright structure of grass is good for screening. Great as mass planting or specimen.

Morning Light Grass

Morning Light Grass

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Morning
Light’

Height: 4’
Spread: 2’
Light: Full sun

Silver variegated Maiden grass
that blooms from Sept. to October. Neat narrow leaves, very upright good for screening. Great as mass planting or specimen.

Prairie Dropseed Grass

Prairie Dropseed Grass

Sporobolus heterolepsis

Height: 36”
Spread: 15”
Light: Full sun

Flower color is tan that blooms
from August to September. This
short structured clump forming
grass with hair-like foliage is
ideal for softening edges of sidewalks, patios, and naturalizing plantings.

Purple Maiden Grass

Purple Maiden Grass

Miscanthus sinensis ‘Purpurpascens’

Height: 12-36”
Spread: 20-30”
Light: Full Sun

It has purple foliage and purple
foxtail-like flowers. This plant is
only an annual in northern climates. It makes a great specimen plant and can be used as a center piece in a container

Shenandoah Switch Grass

Shenandoah Switch Grass

Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’

Height: 3-4’
Spread: 18-24”
Light: Full Sun

‘Shenandoah’, has a burgundy-red colored foliage. The foliage
starts out as deep green but takes on the red color thru the
summer.

Hamlen Grass

Hamlen Grass

Pennisetum alopecuroides
‘Hameln’

Height: 1-2’
Spread:12-18”
Light: Full Sun

The dwarf fountain grass ‘Hamlen’ is a great grass as a specimen or in mass plantings. The leaves are narrow and arched, and has seed-heads that resemble bottle brushes which are a rose-copper in color.

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Heavy Metal Switch Grass

Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’

Height: 5’
Spread: 3’
Light: Full sun

Stiff upright metallic-blue foliage
superb form and color. Looks
great planted as a specimen or
in mass plantings. Good for
screening.