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We grow many types of ornamental grasses mostly in 4 inch and 1 gallon pots.
Decorative grass blue. There are grasses for damp or dry soil shady as well as sunny situations. Blue fescue grass festuca glauca is a colorful ornamental grass with icy blue foliage and pale yellow flowers it is drought tolerant and grows in usda plant hardiness zones 4 through 8. Many are ideal for gravel gardens prairie planting wildlife gardens and are great to add to the cutting garden. With narrow steel blue leaves and growing in round clumps the blue oat grass is a semi evergreen that is low maintenance and starts out in early to mid summer as small spikelets that are straw colored.
Gardeners like its ease of care and its fine texture which makes it a good companion plant for heavier or more dramatic plantings. They are a lower mound growing form of ornamental grass that look great in a modern or traditional landscape. The winner of several international awards this type of grass does great in full sun and dry soils that have good drainage. All are monocotyledons typically with narrow leaves and parallel veins most are herbaceous perennials though many are evergreen and some.
The plant may die back if the soils are too heavy and full of clay so amend the area prior to planting with plenty of compost. In addition to blue fescue other popular ornamental fescues include atlas fescue festuca mairei california fescue festuca californica and sheep fescue festuca ovina. Care of blue fescue grass. Caring for blue fescue ornamental grass isn t difficult.
For more information on any of our plants please feel free to call us at 360 507 8403. But in the world of ornamental grasses fescues are considered low growers and are often used as edgings borders and ground covers. Along with true grasses poaceae several other families of grass like plants are typically marketed as ornamental grasses. It is a great companion to taller flowers like salvias and.
Ornamental grasses can be used to great effect in our gardens from providing a calming presence to more exuberant flowering plants to being the only focus of the design. Commonly used as a ground cover plant the blue fescue spreads to about one foot in width and one foot in height. These plants will provide years of pleasure in your garden. These include the sedges cyperaceae rushes juncaceae restios restionaceae and cat tails typhaceae.
Blue fescue grass needs average moisture and will require supplemental water in summer. Jaw dropping ornamental perennial grasses blue fescue festuca glauca the blue fescue also known as elijah blue is a small ornamental grass with silvery blue blades. Oakridge red green decorative grass picks set of 3 artificial indoor outdoor home and garden décor 12 long x 9 wide each 5 0 out of 5 stars 1 12 80 12. Others perform well in containers.