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Clockwise from top left: Miscanthus Graziella, Panicum Northwind, Helictotrichon. |
ORNAMENTAL GRASSES
Ornamental grasses, which can handle both drought and wet conditions, are enjoying a burst of increased popularity as accent plants, ground covers, screens,
and border edgings. Many ornamental grasses produce attractive flowers that will gracefully sway with the wind and provide textural interest to your garden.
Grasses can be either clump-forming or rhizome-forming "running" grass. The clump-forming grasses will grow in very nice, neat mounds or clumps that mix very well
with other perennials and will not become invasive. While rhizome-forming grasses spread by underground stems and make excellent ground covers, erosion control
plants, and dense cover plantings that resist the invasion of weeds, they can become very aggressive and invasive! Their place may not
be in a well-tended perennial border. Before selecting an ornamental grass be sure to understand how it grows so you won't be planting a future problem. Just ask the
garden staff at Reds — we can help!
The Nursery at Reds features the following varieties of ornamental grasses:
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Acorus
Variegated Sweet Flag Calamagrostis
Karl Forester's Feather Reed Grass Carex
Fox Red Curly Sedge Chasmanthium Northern Sea Oats Cortaderia
Ivory Feathers Dwarf Pampas Grass Equisetum Horsetail Reed Grass Erianthus Hardy Pampas Grass Eleymus Blue Dune Lyme Grass Festuca Elijah Blue Fescue Grass Hakonechloa Golden Japanese Forest Grass (All Gold, Aureola, Stripe it Rich) Helictotrichon Blue Oat Grass Imperata Red Baron Japanese Bloodgrass |
Miscanthus
Cabaret Japanese Silver Grass Molinia Purple Moor Grass Muhlenbergia Pink Hair Grass Ophiopogon Ebony Knight Mondo Grass Panicum
Cloud Nine Switch Grass Pennisetum
Fountain Grass Phalaris Ribbon Grass Schizachyrium The Blues Little Blue Stem Typha Minima Miniture Cat-tail |