Grasses.

Ornamental grasses offer gardens an unparalleled combination of long-lasting form and color, along with airy grace, charm, and movement. As well as attractive foliage, many ornamental grasses bear flowers in summer that last for months. There’s an incredible range of grasses to grow. While the different types have different growing requirements, most do best in a fertile soil in sun or part shade. Some ornamental grasses tolerate drought while a few require moisture retentive soil that doesn’t dry out.

Ornamental grasses make great companions to many other plants, enhancing the whole look of a planting scheme, with contrasting form and foliage. Some are evergreen and invaluable for all year interest. Deciduous grasses die back in autumn yet still retain their form and structure for months, sometimes even right through winter.

Ornamental grasses are easy to care for. Deciduous ones should be cut right back before new growth begins in spring, whilst evergreens just need tidying to remove last year’s flower stems and any dead foliage. Most grasses can be propagated by division, in early spring.

  • Anemanthele lessioniana (pheasant's tail grass).

    Commonly known as pheasant’s tail grass, this evergreen has a lovely arching habit and is versatile, thriving in sun as well as light shade. It has green and oaty tones in summer and turns a coppery ginger in autumn, then holds its form and color through the winter. It will freely self-seed around in any gaps.

    Size: 3’ x 3’

  • Briza (Greater Quaking Grass).

  • Calamagrostis x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’ (Feather Reed Grass).

  • Carex.

  • Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Goldtau’ (Golden Dew Tufted Hair Grass).

  • Festuca glauca.

  • Hakonechloa.

  • Imperata cylindrica (Japanese blood grass)

  • Melica uniflora (Wood melick)

  • Miscanthus.

  • Miscanthus nepalensis (Himalaya Fairy Grass).

  • Miscanthus sinensis ‘Kleine Silberspinne’.

  • Molinia.

  • Molinia caerulea subsp. caerulea ‘Heidezwerg’.

  • Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea ‘Transparent’.

  • Nassella tenuissima (Mexican Feather Grass).

  • Panicum virgatum 'Dallas Blues'.

  • Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal'.

  • Panicum virgatum 'Prairie Dog'.

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  • Panicum virgatum 'Prairie Sky'.

  • Panicum virgatum ‘Purple Tears’.

  • Panicum virgatum ‘Shenandoah’ (Red Switchgrass).

  • Pennisetum.

  • Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hameln’

  • Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Herbstzauber’.

  • Sporobolus heterolepis ‘Tara’ (Dwarf Prairie Dropseed).

  • Stipa.