Illustrated List: Ornamental grasses

Anemanthele lessoniana

Beautiful, arching grass with strands of glimmering ruby-red shining through the lime-green swards. Spectacular when waving in the breeze, like 'angels' hair' or grown as a specimen in the border or a container.

Annual Grasses Mixed

Wisps and crowns, plumes and spikes, pendulous and cloud like - they are all here in one embracing mixture. Invaluable if you never have enough material available for your arrangements. Ideal for bedding, border, everlasting flowers.

Packet should contain: Agrostis nebulosa, Agrostis pulchella, Briza maxima, Briza gracillis, Brome macrostachys, Brome uniloides, Festuca glauca, Panicum violaceum, Sorghum nigrum.

Briza maxima

Graceful, pendant, nodding flowers adding elegance and feeling to summer and winter decorations. Particularly useful at Christmas when they can be sprayed silver, gold etc,. Very easy to grow to perfection.

Carex flagillifera

An imposing grass suitable for both the border and containers. The cascading, metallic bronze swards will create a stunning effect. Try this grass in baskets for a unique effect.

Cyperus papyrus

Ancient Egyptians flattened and dried the stems of this decorative grass to make a form of paper. Best suited to houseplant culture, where plants need high humidity and moisture. Large clumps will throw up umbrella-like heads of grassy globes.

Festuca glauca

Densely tufted true azure-blue grass. Effective ground cover, invaluable border or rockery plant.

Grass - Ornamental : Carex Red Rooster

The rich reddish-bronze, fine leaved foliage, makes this one of the most ornamental coloured grasses. Stunning planted in mixed borders or alone in containers, adding colour and texture to your summer and autumn displays

Grass - Ornamental : Colour Grass Collection

Attractive blend of four colourful ornamental grasses. Easy to grow and quick to establish in borders or containers, each adding a different colour and texture to your garden. Height 20-60cm (8-24 inches).

Grass - Ornamental : Coryncphorus Spiky Blue

Attractive neat tufts of grey-green fine foliage. Very uniform and compact ornamental, coloured grass, quickly becoming established in borders or containers. Ideal for adding different colours and textures to your garden. Colourful in borders and containers.

Grass - Ornamental : Hordeum jubatum

Splendid grass variety which was the talk of both our Open Weekend and our Press Day, so in response to popular demand, we have now added it to our catalogue! Ornamental Grass Hordeum jubatum produces bushy clumps of green, sword-like foliage are quickly topped by silvery-pink, feathery plumes which ‘glisten’ as they wave in a breeze. Superb as a feature plant in a container or added to borders.

Grass - Ornamental : Oryza sativa Black Madras

An easy-to-grow black grass which will bring a touch of Asia to your garden with its green-purple ornamental foliage. Oryza sativa Black Madras is stunning in borders or containers using a moisture-retaining soil. Looks fabulous all summer.

Grass - Ornamental : Perfect Partners

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Collection comprises one packet each of:

Millium effusum Aureum - an attractive form of millet grass with amazing golden yellow foliage that looks spectacular planted in lightly shaded borders or containers.

Ophiopogon p. Nigrescens - more commonly known as the 'Black Grass'. Rarely offered as seed, creating a spectacular feature plant in borders or containers.

Grass : Panicum virgatum

A clump-forming grass for borders. The dazzling, upright, steely blue swards are particularly striking against hot shades of orange. The foliage changes to soft yellow in autumn, often appearing alongside purple-green flower spikelets.

Kew : Grasses (Ornamental) Hare's Tail

Soft, fur-like, silky heads with grace and beauty.

Lagurus ovatus Hare's Tail

Soft, fur-like, silky heads with grace and beauty.

Leymus arenarius Blue Grass

A gorgeous perennial grass with attractive, dense clump forming, glaucus blue, broad, spiky foliage. Looks stunning in borders, as well as making a spectacular container plant for a sunny patio.

In the second year tall, blue changing to buff, flower spikes appear.

Height 60cm (24in) with a 150cm (60in) flower spike.