Ornamental Grasses

Ornamental grasses are an essential tool for the modern gardener. They offer a large choice of colours and different sculptural forms. When planted in large numbers they allow you to break up spaces. If grown alone they allow you to create very pure designs especially when combined with water or other elements.

Ornamental Grasses	Adult height	Hardiness
Bearskin fescue Festuca gautieri	H: 20 cm	-20°C
Black Lilyturf or Black Dragon or Ebony Knight Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens'	H: 35 cm	-15°C
Chinese fountain grass Pennisetum alopecuroides	H: 80 cm	-15°C
Cogon Grass Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron'	H: 1 m	-15°C
Common cotton grass Eriophorum angustifolium	H: 60 cm	-20°C
Elijah's Blue Fescue Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'	H: 30 cm	-15°C
Elymus Agropyron magellanicum	H: 1,20 m	-20°C
Evergreen Silver Grass Miscanthus transmorrisonensis	H: 1,80 m	-15°C
Japanese Grass Hakonechloa macra	H: 40 cm	-20°C
Pampas Grass Cortaderia selloana or Gynerium argenteum	H: 2-3 m	-20°C
Pheasant's tail grass Stipa arundinacea	H: 1 m	-15°C
Pink Pampas Grass Cortaderia selloana rosea	H: 2-3 m	-20°C
Pony Tails Grass Stipa tenuissima 'Pony Tails'	H: 60 cm	-15°C
Sedge 'Evergold' Carex oshimensis 'Evergold'	H: 30 cm	-25°C
Sedge 'Frosted Curls' Carex comans 'Frosted Curls'	H: 30 cm	-15°C
Variegated Chinese silver grass Miscanthus sinensis 'Variegatus'	H: 2 m	-20°C
Yellow Sedge Carex stricta 'Aurea' or Carex elata 'Aurea'	H: 80 cm	-20°C

KEY

: Plant does not tolerate alkaline soil

H: 3m

: Height of adult plant, here 3m high

-20°C

: Adult plant hardy to -20°C

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