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Ornamental grasses are ideal in both residential and commercial landscape situations. They require relatively low maintenance yet offer unique foliage in outdoor designs while complimenting shrubs and other perennials. Grasses do well in full sun locations but there are varieties that will tolerate some shade. Ranging in height from 12" to 14', they can be used as edging, groundcover or border. When used as a singular specimen, they are an effective focal point in a landscape design.
Acorus gramineus 'Ogon'

Golden Varieg. Sweet Flag

Bloom Season:  Height: 15"
Forms a low tuft or mound of narrow sword-shaped leaves that are bright glowing golden yellow.  Flowers are green and insignificant.
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Acorus gramineus 'Variegatus'

Variegated Sweet Flag

Bloom Season:  Height: 8-12"
This selection forms a low mound of narrow sword-shaped leaves, striped lengthwise with green and creamy-white.  Flowers are green and insignificant.
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Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'

Feather Reed Grass

Bloom Season: Sept-Oct. Height: 5-7'
Clumps are strongly upright, with dark green leaves.  Soft feathery green plumes appear in summer, maturing into stiff wheat-colored spikes, which last into winter.
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* 2001 Perennial of Year
Carex buchananii

Leatherleaf Sedge

Bloom Season:  Height: 12-24"
Plants form upright clumps of very fine, hair-like leaves in a most unusual bronzy-cinnamon color.  Outstanding as a color contrast in the border.
#14595

 

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Carex morrowii 'Aureo Variegata'

Varieg. Japanese Sedge

Bloom Season: May-Oct. Height: 24"
Attractive, mounding ornamental grass with stiff lustrous green and creamy white striped blades. Great low border or ground cover, or use in pots or rock gardens.
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Carex morrowii 'Gold Band'

Gold Band Jap. Sedge

Bloom Season: Height: 12"
The foliage is vertically banded white and dark green...much more white than C. morrowii 'Variegatus' but otherwise, identical in growth habit.
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Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance'

Ice Dance Jap. Sedge

Bloom Season: Height: 10-14"
Japanese selection forms a low, tufted mound of dark green grassy leaves, each edged in bright white.  Spreads slowly underground to form a small patch, making this useful as a groundcover or edging plant in the shade.
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Carex morrowii 'Old Gold'

Old Gold Sedge

Bloom Season:  Height: 18-24"
Mounded, clumping plants with green and gold striped grass-like foliage. Arch-like foliage. makes an excellent ground cover.  Plant is drought tolerant once established.
#12738

 

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Carex morrowii 'Silver Sceptre'

Silver Sceptre Sedge

Bloom Season:  Height: 10-12"
Arching harrow green leaf blades are variegated with white edges, greenish-brown flower spikes appear on triangular stems in mid-spring
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Carex oshimensis 'Evergold'

Japanese Evergold Sedge

Bloom Season:  Height: 8-12"
The pendulous, creamy-yellow blades of 'Evergold' feature green margins and form evergreen mounds that will benefit from a lightly shaded area.
#11497

 

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Cortaderia selloana 'Pumila'

Ivory Feathers Pampas

Bloom Season:  Height: 3-5'
Well suited for smaller gardens; used as a specimen for its handsome fall flowers.  Long 6-foot stalks of white plumes are held above the foliage.  This clumping perennial grass is wind and drought tolerant.
#14366
 
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Erianthus ravennae

False Pampas Grass

Bloom Season: Aug.-Sept. Height: 9-15'
Having an upright arching form, the gray-green leaves reach a height of about 5'.  In late summer, dynamic flower spikes reach impressive heights of 8 to 12'.  Silvery flower panicles with hints of purple top these spikes and then fade to white in fall.
#11705
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Festuca ovina 'Boulder Blue'

Boulder Blue Fescue Grass

Bloom Season:  Height: 15"
A drought tolerant clump former, the soft, silvery powder blue, and spiky foliage of 'Boulder Blue' will keep color all year and produce wheat-like seed heads on tall stalks in great numbers.
#13076

 

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Festuca ovina 'Elijah Blue'

Blue Fescue Grass

Bloom Season: April-Oct. Height: 8-10"
Known for its intense silvery-blue, fine textured leaves that make it a superb color accent and a solid performer in cool coastal climates.  Clump forming, this grass can serve a variety of purposes from accent to groundcover.
#16508

 

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Festuca ovina 'Glauca'

Blue Fescue Grass

Bloom Season: April-Oct. Height: 12"
Mop of quite silvery blue-tinted foliage, topped with tan flower/seed-stalks in summer.
#10891

 

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Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'

Golden Jap. Forest Grass

Bloom Season:  Height: 14-18"
Features foliage striped with bands of yellow and chartreuse that forms a natural cascading habit.  Plant in rich soil with partial shade for best results.
#18565

 

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Helictotrichon sempervirens

Blue Oat Grass

Bloom Season: June-July Height: 12-24"
The thin, stiff and upright blue-gray foliage of this ornamental grass will settle into a clumped form while brown seed heads appear in early July.
#15773
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Imperata cylindrica 'Rubra'

Japanese Blood Grass

Bloom Season: Spring-fall Height: 18-24"
Erect greenish red grass blades turn deep, blood red in August and persist through fall.   In northern zones will not flower.
#15472

 

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Juncus effusus 'Unicorn'

Corkscrew Rush Grass

Bloom Season:  Height: 18-24"
'Unicorn' features dark green, lustrous stems that are dramatically spiraled.  Plant in consistently moist soil or the edge of a pond for best results.  A great selection for arrangements or as a container plant for the deck or patio.
#13037
 
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