Stipa – commonly called Feather grass, Needle grass, or Spear grass–is a perennial grass grown for its bright green, narrow, flat leaves and open, airy inflorescences. Stipa imparts feathery lightness and motion in the garden. Stipa’s flowering stems divide and redivide into almost hairlike fineness. They are green at first and then become golden. Use Stipa…
Ophiopogon – commonly called lilyturf or Mondo grass–is a perennial grown for its dense tufts of grass-like leaves. The leaves can vary from dark green to variegated linear green and white stripes to nearly black. Ophiopogon also bears semi-spherical to bell-shaped pinkish-white lilac, or white flowers on leafless stems in summer. Ophiopogon can be used as a ground…
Phormium – commonly called New Zealand flax –is a dramatic plant composed of sword-like, stiffly vertical leaves in a fan pattern. Cultivars often range in colors from yellow-green to dark green with white or yellow stripes. Phormium bears tall erect panicles of 1 to 2-inch (5cm) tubular blossoms in dull red or yellow. Flowers appear in late…
Pennisetum – commonly called Fountain grass–is a perennial clump-forming grass with arching stems tipped with feathery spike-like flower plumes in summer. Pennisetum is one of the most graceful ornamental grasses. Pennisetum has linear light to mid-green leaves. Leaves turn yellow in autumn and brown in winter. Pennisetum can be grown in perennial or shrub borders, as bank…
Panicum – commonly called Switch grass–is a tall prairie grass that forms upright clumps of narrow, deep green or gray leaves topped by slender flower clusters. Some clumps can grow 4 to 7 feet (1.2-2.1m) tall. Clumps open into loose, airy clouds of pink blossoms in late summer; in autumn flowers fade to white, then brown. Panicum…
Spodiopogon – commonly called Frost grass or Graybeard grass–is an ornamental grass that somewhat resembles bamboo. It is architectural in form with right-angled leaves emerging from clumps and spirelike airy flower spikes. Spodiopogon takes on a purplish to frosty white tint in late autumn and winter–thus the common name frost grass. The flowers and foliage of Spodiopogon…
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