Bamboos and grasses

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Festuca glauca 'ELIJAH BLUE'
(blue fescue)

Blue fescue is an attractive perennial – grass forming low mounds of short, silvery blue, thin foliage. It grows only about 20 cm tall but in summer it is decorated with approx. 40 cm tall stems with light beige spikes of flowers. They can be removed at any t ...


	0.2 - 0.4m	0.2 - 0.3m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Festuca glauca 'Casblue' INTENSE BLUE®
(blue fescue)

INTENSE BLUE® is a blue fescue of a striking colour. It was bred by Allure Tuinplanten and Amigra from the Netherlands. It was found in 2005 and introduced three years later. The plant makes well-behaved, symmetrical, ...


	0.2 - 0.4m	0.2 - 0.3m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Hakonechloa macra 'AUREOLA'
(Hakone grass)

Aureola is a distinct hakone grass variety with variegated foliage. Its leaves have narrow stripes of banana yellow, pale green, and light butter yellow colour. They are only about one centimeter wide leaves and grow from s ...


	0.3 - 0.6m	0.3 - 0.5m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Liriope muscari 'MONEYMAKER'
(border grass)

Moneymaker is a clump forming lily-turf variety with attractive foliage and flowers. Its dark green, ribbon-like, semi-glossy, narrow leaves are evergreen in mild winters of zone 6, and reliably evergreen in warmer areas. I ...


	0.2 - 0.4m	0.3 - 0.5m		6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Miscanthus sinensis 'ADAGIO'
(dwarf maiden grass)

Adagio is a dwarf variety of eulalia (maiden grass) as it does not grow taller than some 70 cm in leaf, and slightly over one meter in bloom. Leaves are dark green, elegantly narrow, and emerge late in spring, often in May. ...


	0.5 - 0.8m	1 - 1.5m		4 (down to -34°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Miscanthus sinensis 'FLAMINGO'
(eulalia)

Flamingo is an eulaila variety of a graceful habit. It has deep green, glossy leaves with a conspicuous white stripe in the middle. In autumn they quickly gain purple shades and later turn fiery orange. Glossy, wine red flo ...


	1.5 - 1.8m	1 - 1.5m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Miscanthus sinensis 'GOLD BAR'®
(eulalia)

Gold Bar® is a very attractive mutation of popular zebra grass which exhibits a shorter, more compact growth with more profuse yellow variegation. Gold Bar®


	0.8 - 1.3m	0.6 - 1m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Miscanthus sinensis 'LITTLE ZEBRA'®
(dwarf eulalia)

Little Zebra® is an eulalia variety which is commonly supposed to be a dwarf version of Zebrinus, an older eulalia variety, however, these two have nothing in ...


	0.8 - 1.3m	0.8 - 1.3m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Miscanthus sinensis 'ZEBRINUS'
(zebra grass)

Zebra grass, formerly known as Strictus, is an old favourite among eulalias. It has stiff, upright, bright green leaves with horizontal creamy yellow stripes which make it the popular zebr ...


	0.8 - 1.3m			5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Ophiopogon planiscapus 'NIGER'
(mondo grass)

Ophiopogon planiscapus (Ebony Night, Black Dragon)

Mondo grass is a highly attractive evergreen perennial from China and Japan. It is cultivated for handsome, strap-like foliage. Niger is a variety offering narrow, flat, grass-like leaves of extremely deep purple, almost bl ...


	0.2 - 0.3m	0.3 - 0.4m		6 (down to -23°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Panicum virgatum 'PRAIRIE SKY'
(switch grass)

Prairie Sky is considered the bluest among the very few switch grass varieties offering blue-green colour. Its flat, 1-2 cm wide leaves are upright, only tips are weeping. From late summer appear taller stems with large, sa ...


	1.3 - 1.8m	1 - 1.5m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'HAMELN'
(Chinese fountain grass)

Chinese fountain grass is an elegant feature to every garden. It has mid to dark green linear leaves growing in a thick cluster forming a shape of a fountain. From midsummer it produces yellow-green spike-like flowers which look like bottlebrushes. They are beige w ...


	0.5 - 0.6m	0.6 - 0.8m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'LITTLE BUNNY'
(Chinese fountain grass)

Little Bunny is a dwarf selection of fountain grass producing compact, low clumps with only about 40 cm tall foliage. In midsummer rise slightly taller stems with 10-15 cm long, light green to pale beige spikes with purple ...


	0.4 - 0.5m	0.4 - 0.5m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'RED HEAD'
(Chinese fountain grass)

Red Head is a fountain grass selection by Brent Horvath of Intrinsic Perennials from Illinois, USA. It produces attractive smoky purple red spike-like flowers 20-25 cm long. They appear atop up to 1.5m tall stem and exhibi ...


	1 - 1.5m	1 - 1.5m		5 (down to -29°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Phyllostachys bissetii
(bamboo)

Phyllostachys bissetii is a hardy bamboo species from phyllostachys genus. It has rich green, narrowly lance-shaped leaves, and medium thick, dark olive green stems. It grows medium fast and is suitable for hedges an ...


	4 - 8m	1 - 1.5m		5b (down to -27°C)	for zone 5+6 for zone 7

Pleioblastus variegatus
(dwarf bamboo)

Pleioblastus variegatus (Arundinaria fortunei)

This bamboo is a popular groundcover. Its mid-sized leaves are 10-14 cm long and 1-1.5 cm wide, and distinctly white variegated. It comes from Japan. It is a vigorous grower that has wild root system. If you want to keep it in a certain area of your garden we recommend using root barriers. ...