Evergreen 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: 19cm Pot

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

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

Characteristics:

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

Carex oshimensis 'Eversheen' is a dense, tufted, evergreen perennial grass forming a mound of long, arching, linear, glossy, bright yellow-green leaves with dark green margins and lax stems bearing insignificant, brown flower spikes in summer.

Characteristics:

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

'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: 5 Litre

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

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

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

Carex testacea form a low, cascading mound of narrow, arching, olive-green leaves turning coppery-brown in summer and adding warm, orange tints in winter. Inconspicuous brown flower spikes are produced in early summer whose stems droop gracefully as they age.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Coppery-Orange
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.7m x S-0.6m
• Hardiness: Frosy Hardy (Needs Winter Protection)
• Flowers: July to August
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Phormium 'Pink Panther' is an evergreen perennial forming a clump of strap-shaped leaves that are pink with deep red edges. Its foliage is upright with arching outer leaves.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: New Zealand Flax
• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Pink, Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.8m x S-0.8m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Phormium tenax 'Tricolor' is an evergreen grass that forms a large clump of sword-shaped leaves striped with yellow and green, edged with red. Flowers yellowish-green, in large panicles appear on mature plants in summer.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Mountain Flax
• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Yellow, Green, Red
• Max. Height & Spread: H1.5m x S-2.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 5 Litre

Festuca glauca 'AmiGold' is a compact, dense, mound-forming, semi-evergreen perennial grass with upright, linear, golden-yellow to yellow-green leaves and, in summer, erect stems bearing dense, narrow, silvery, greenish-white flower spikelets maturing pale brown.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Golden-Yellow
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.3m x S-0.3m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Cortaderia selloana 'Pumila', or commonly known as Pampas Grass, is an evergreen grass with narrow, dark green leaves and long, silky, cream-white plumes borne on stems in summer.

Characteristics:

• Common Name: Pampas Grass
• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Silky-White
• Max. Height & Spread: H-1.5m x S-1m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Sun
• 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

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

Carex 'Ribbon Falls' is a compact, clump-forming, evergreen, grass-like sedge with long, arching, slightly curled, broadly linear, dark green leaves. Inconspicuous, brown flower spikelets bloom in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Grass
• Colour: Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.4m x S-0.4m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Position: Full Sun or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 2 Litre

Carex morrowii 'Irish Green' is a tufted, evergreen to semi-evergreen perennial bearing linear, leathery, upright to arching, mid-to bright green leaves and inconspicuous, pale brown flower spikelets in summer.

Characteristics:

• Type: Evergreen Perennial Grass
• Colour: Green
• Max. Height & Spread: H-0.5m x S-0.5m
• Hardiness: Hardy
• Flowers: Summer
• Position: Full Shade or Partial Shade
• Pot Size: 1 Litre