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Ornamental grasses may be small clumping forms to varieties reaching over 10’. In most cases they dry very nicely in the fall and provide winter interest. In the spring they are cut down to the ground like many other perennials, regrowing to maturity in one season.

  • BLACK MONDO GRASS (OPHIOPOGON planiscapus)
  • BLUE OAT GRASS (Helictotrichon sempervirens)
  • FEATHER REED GRASS (Calamagrostis)

‘Karl Foerster’ (arundinacea)
‘Overdam’

  • FESCUE (Festuca ‘Elijah Blue’)
  • FOUNTAIN GRASS (Pennisetum alopecuroides)

‘Hameln’
‘Moudry’
‘Red Head’
Annual Fountain Grass (setaceum ‘Rubrum’)

  • ORIENTAL FOUNTAIN GRASS
  • HAKONE GRASS (Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’)

All Gold’
‘Albo striata’

  • JAPANESE BLOOD GRASS (Imperata cylindrica ‘Red Baron’)
  • JAPANESE SILVER GRASS (Miscanthus sinensis)

‘Adagio’
‘Little Kitten’
‘Little Zebra’
‘Morning Light’
Maiden (‘Gracillimus’)
Porcupine Grass (‘Strictus’)
Red Leafed Miscanthus (purpurescens)
Zebra (‘Zebrinus’)
Striped Eulalia Grass (‘Variegatus’)

  • LITTLE BLUESTEM (Schizachyrium scoparium)

‘The Blues’

  • NORTHERN PAMPAS GRASS (Saccharum ravennae)
  • NORTHERN SEAS OATS or Wild Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)
  • RIBBON GRASS (Phalaris)
  • SEDGE GRASS (Carex)- Great choice for areas of sun to shade.

Appalachica
‘Beatlemania’
‘Evergold’ (morrowii ‘Aureo variegata’)
‘Blue Zinger’ (flacca (glauca)
‘Gold Fountain’
‘Ice Dance’
SWITCH GRASS (Panacum virgatum)
‘Prarie Sky’
‘Ruby Ribbons’
Shenandoah

  • VARIEGATED PURPLE MOOR GRASS (Molinia caerula ‘Variegata’)
 


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