Tall Ornamental Grasses For Shade

These naturally short plants – the tufts only get about 24” tall – are perfect for covering the ‘feet' of bare-bottomed plants like tall Phlox or Bee Balm for a prairie garden effect.

Don't wait to order these sure-fire great additions to your landscape. Sunlit drama for your garden! You probably don't realize that your garden is incomplete. Tons of showy flower plumes emerge above the foliage in rustic bronze shades that fade to pink...

Something these small gardens often lack is the motion and grandeur of grass, since so many of the American prairie grasses are big and bold. Not a big revolution. As the summer wears on the outer foliage turns brilliant red and purple that just intensifies...

Fireworks brings deep beautiful color wherever you plant it, even in containers! It grows 24” to 36” tall and holds its color all season long, even deep onto the fall. Drought and disease don't bother it once it is established and salt air doesn't...

It has an upright habit, with a gentle cascading effect (to the outside foliage), lending a touch of additional elegance to its form. Even when in decline Hot Rod adds decorative interest to the winter landscape.

We highly recommend that you mulch your Mondo Grass with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems.

Each blade has a soft creamy interior that glows against a rich deep-green edge. Don't wait until we're sold out of Evercolor Everlite! They will go fast. Enjoy Big Excitement From a Little Plant! It's time to add some energy and excitement to your tired...

'Red Head' begins to show its enormous bottlebrush plumes in mid to late summer. * Enormous Purple Plumes All Summer * Golden Foliage in Autumn * Deer Resistant * Great as foundation plantings

Whether your garden is rustic or formal, Evercolor Everlime will brighten it up all year. Lime-striped foliage all year! Do you want to add year-round motion and energy to your garden this year?

This species thrives in shallow water (2-3 “). Is a dense, clump-forming sedge rising 1-2.5′ tall which is grown for its foliage effect. Cultivars of this species are superior garden plants to the species.

Tiny buffy colored flowers with red tinges emerge in fluffy panicles above the foliage in August-September. Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade.

Prefers moist soils. Clumps slowly expand in circumference by short rhizomes, but usually retain tight clump shape. Clumps have a sturdy, compact habit, well suited to the smaller garden.

Tolerant of summer heat and humidity. Versatile ornamental grass for smaller areas. Tolerant of a wide range of soils from well-drained sandy soils to the heavy clays, it also loves the heat and humidity ofour summers.

It is not evergreen in the Maryland area, although some foliage color will persist through the winter.it looks great grouped in the woodland garden or border or when used to edge a woodland path.

‘Zebrinus') is a clump-forming grass noted for its horizontally banded foliage. As seeds begin to form, the flower/seed plumes fade to creamy tan, often providing some winter interest.

Less vigorous with decreased flowering and tendency to flop in too much shade. Foliage turns yellowish after frost, but quickly fades to straw-beige by winter. This grass also loves our summer heat and humidity.

It tolerates a wide range of soils, including dry ones, but prefers moist, sandy or clay soils. Late fall's stunning red color is enhanced by delicate, small red flower plumes that float above the foliage.

Tall fescue in lawns forms a nice dense grass that cannot be mowed below 1.5 inches. It does, however, need frequent deep watering in summer. It spreads by seed primarily and does most of its growth in spring and fall.

In summer narrow panicles of creamy long awned spikelets appear. Its bright green foliage resembles delicate filaments that arise in elegant, vase-like clumps and spill outward like a soft fountain.

Tends to flop in rich soils. Stems typically retain vertical form without flopping throughout the growing season and into winter. It is a clump-forming, warm season grass which typically grows in an upright, vertical clump to 3′ tall (to 5′ when in...

A deficiency of Phosphorus may affect the energy transfer in the plant, and result in stunted growth as well. As with chemical fertilizers, do not apply it right next to the trunk or stems emerging from the ground.

Who doesn't love the ever-changing colors and texture that Ornamental Grasses bring to the garden? (Andropogon gerardii) Beginning as a gray-blue in spring, deepening to blue-green in summer, and then dramatically turning a brilliant scarlet-red come...

Glossy, wiry, thread-like, dark green leaves and stems form an attractive basal clump to 2' tall. Plants typically grow to 3' tall x 3' wide when in flower. Details: Pink Muhly grass is best grouped or massed for late season color.

Trim foliage to the ground in late winter to early spring before the new shoots emerge. Clumps spread by rhizomes, but are not considered to be invasive. Species plants reportedly have better winter hardiness and perform better in full sun exposures than...

However, it bears the same showy plumes which are creamy white and silky to the touch and the plumes are perfect for dried . Tolerates drought once established. In the colder climates, this grass will generally not survive winter, and should be planted...

Clumps provide vertical accent to moist garden areas. Insignificant, tiny, yellowish-green to pale brown flowers appear in clusters (many flowered cymes) that emerge on the side of the stems slightly below the stem tips in summer.

Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Carex Blue Zinger a good...