Deciduous Grasses

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: 2 Litre

Everest is a hardy sedge that creates mounds of arching leaves that are variegated with a linear white stripe on green. Flowers in summer and reaches around 45cm in height.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Japanese sedge
• Soil: Fertile, Moist but well drained soil
• Position: Full sun or partial shade
• Flowering Period: April - June
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Rate of Growth: Average to Fast
• Height & Spread: 45cm x 30cm
• Pot Size: 1 Litre

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: 2 Litre

Panicum virgatum 'Blue Fountain' is a late blooming deciduous grass with attractive wide and strappy leaves. This durable grass will tolerate drought, heat and wind once established.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Blue Switch Grass
• Type: Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Blue Shades
• Height & Spread: H-2m x S-1.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 5 Litre

Panicum virgatum is a narrowly upright, rhizomatous, deciduous, perennial grass forming clumps of purple-flushed, mid-green stems bearing upright, flat, linear, mid-green leaves, turning yellow in autumn and light brown in winter. Broad, pendent panicles of tiny, purple-green flower spikelets bloom in early autumn.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Switch Grass
• Type: Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Purple-Green
• Height & Spread: H-1m x S-0.75m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Autumn
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 6.5 Litre

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln' is a clump-forming perennial grass with arching linear leaves and panicles of bristly, purple-tinged flower spikes in late summer.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Chinese Fountain Grass
• Type: Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Pale-Purple
• Height & Spread: H-1m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 3 Litre

Pennisetum advena 'Fireworks' is a tender, clump-forming, deciduous, perennial grass bearing flat, linear, upright to arching maroon leaves with broad, reddish-pink margins and, in summer, narrow, soft, long-bristled panicles of dark red flower spikelets, gradually fading to pale brown.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Fountain Grass
• Type: Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Dark Red to Pale Brown
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.2m x S-0.9m
• Hardiness: Tender in Frost
• Flowers: Summer and Autumn
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Miscanthus sinensis 'Adagio' is a clump-forming deciduous grass with long, narrow, grey-green, arching leaves that turn yellow and orange in the autumn. The head of this grass plant turns pink-tinged in summer, before returning creamy-white in the autumn.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Grey, Green, Orange/Yellow in Autumn
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.5m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre Pot

This majestic semi-evergreen grass is a superb specimen plant for a sunny, mixed or new perennial border. Arching stems of glistening, golden, oat-like flowerheads above clumps of slender, grey-green leaves.

Characteristics:

• Type: Golden Oat Grass (Semi-Evergreen)
• Colour: Golden-Brown
• Height & Spread: H 2.5m x S 1.2m
• Hardiness: Fully Hady
• Flowers: June and July
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Pennisetum advena 'Fireworks' is a clump-forming, deciduous grass with erect to arching leaves. The linear, flat leaves are coloured burgundy-red with pink margins but where shaded from full light leaves are green with white margins.

Characteristics:

• Type: Deciduous Grass
• Colour: Burgundy-Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.5m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Late Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre