Bamboo & Grasses

'Intense Blue' is a compact, dense, mound-forming, evergreen perennial grass with linear, blue-grey leaves and, in summer, erect stems bearing dense, narrow, blue-green flower spikelets maturing pale brown. Comb through the plant with your fingers in winter to remove dead foliage. Plants may need replacing every few years as they may become tatty-looking.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Blue
• Height & Spread: H 0.3m x 0.2m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June to July
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance' is a semi-evergreen Japanese Sedge forming a low, slow-spreading tufted mound of narrow, arching, shiny, dark green leaves adorned with bright white edges. In late spring, it bears inconspicuous brown flower spikes on long stems.

Attractive both in shape and foilage, this highly decorative grass is one of the most beautiful ornamental grasses for the garden, where it provides a lovely contrast with other plants, mulch or gravel.

Characteristics:

• Type: Semi-Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Green/White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.3m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Stipa tenuissima 'Pony Tails' or 'Mexican Feather Grass' is an exceptionally lovely and graceful ornamental grass which exhibits silvery-green thread-like leaves in late spring. All summer, it bears abundant feathery panicles, which are held a little above the foialge and can be used in dry arangements.

Characteristics:

• Type: Semi-Evergreen
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June to September
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Phyllostachys Aurea is a graceful evergreen bamboo producing large clumps of bright green canes which becomne yellow with age and exposure. Leaves linear-lancelote are yellow to golden-green.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Bamboo
• Colour: Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-8m x S-4m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade

Carex 'Feather Falls' is a clump-forming, evergreen, grass-like sedge bearing long, arching, linear, dark green leaves with cream to pale yellow margins. Short, brown flower spikelets bloom in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Green/Variegated
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 5 Litre, Square Pot

Carex oshimensis 'Everest' is a dense, tufted, evergreen, perennial grass forming a mound of narrow, arching, glossy, dark green leaves with white margins and lax stems bearing brown flower spikes in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Dark Green, White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.6m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre Square Pot

Fargesia murieliae is an elegant, evergreen, clump-forming bamboo with tall and slender, rich yellow-green canes gently arching under the weight of the foliage. The leaves are bright green on the upper surface, grey-green underneath.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Bamboo
• Colour: Yellow-Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-4.5cm x S-1.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Season Of Interest: Spring & Summer
• Position: Partial Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Carex buchananii is a tufted perennial grass with an evergreen foliage of narrow, copper-bronze leaves. Erect when young, the grass-like leaves tend gradually to arch over time, curling gracefully towards their tips. Perfect for a sunny garden.

Characteristics:

• Type: Perennial Grass
• Colour: Copper-Bronze
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.9m x S-0.9m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: July to September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Stipa arundinacea (Pheasants Tail) is an evergreen grass with glowing shades of copper, gold and bronze in the Autumn. It has a soft arching habit, so plant it among shrubs for textural contrast, or in a mixed border. Height 90cm. Will thrive in sun or shade, in dry soil.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Copper, Gold & Bronze
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Frost Hardy (Needs Winter Protection)
• Flowers: June to September
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Fargesia rufa is an elegant, evergreen, clump-forming bamboo with short and slender, glossy bright green canes adorned with conspicuous red sheaths. Its canes moderately arch under the weight of the foliage over time.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Bamboo
• Colour: Yellow-Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-2.4m x S-2.4m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Season Of Interest: Year-round interest
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 27cm diameter

Stipa Tenuissima 'Pony Tails' is a deciduous grass to 60cm, forming a compact upright tuft of thread-like leaves, with narrow, arching, feathery flowering panicles in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Tufted Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Light Brown
• Max. Height & Spread: H 1m x S 1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

Ophigogon 'Nigrescens' is an beautiful looking, evergreen grass with purple-green leaves that turn jet black when grown in full sun and well-drained soil. This hardy grass is easily lost in a border, therefore making it ideal for a rock garden container or raised bed.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Inky-Purple
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.2m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Flowers: June to August
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade

Carex comans 'Milk Chocolate' is an evergreen grass with glossy arching leaves that have yellow and red tints when new, ageing to brown and becoming orange-tinted in the autumn.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Yellow-Red, Orange-Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H0.6m x S-0.4m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Autumn
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

Cordyline 'Red Fountain' is an attractive palm type shrub with arching, sword-shaped leaves. Cordylines are a fantastic architectural plant for landscaping around pools and in garden beds. Cordyline Red Fountain is also ideal for specimen plantings, large pots and contemporary gardens.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen
• Colour: Pink/Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Frost Hardy (May Need Winter Protection)
• Flowers: Late Spring & Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Fargesia rufa is an elegant, evergreen, clump-forming bamboo with short and slender, glossy bright green canes adorned with conspicuous red sheaths. Its canes moderately arch under the weight of the foliage over time.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Bamboo
• Colour: Yellow-Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-2.4m x S-2.4m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Season Of Interest: Year-round interest
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

Carex 'Feather Falls' is a clump-forming, evergreen, grass-like sedge bearing long, arching, linear, dark green leaves with cream to pale yellow margins. Short, brown flower spikelets bloom in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Green/Variegated
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre, Square Pot

Phormium 'moonraker' is a compact, clump-forming, evergreen perennial bearing broadly linear, cream to pale yellow leaves with wide, dark green margins and erect stems bearing panicles of tubular, red flowers in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Green/White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.8m x S-0.8m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Carex oshimensis 'Everillo' is a clump-forming evergreen sedge to 60cm tall, producing lime-green to yellow foliage that gradually deepens to golden-yellow as the season progresses. Upright pale to dark brown flower spikes appear in early summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Yellow, Green, Brown, Gold
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Early Summer
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre Square Pot