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Grasses Native and adapted grasses don’t tax our water supply, are one of the most effective erosion control plantings and even provide food via their seeds for songbirds in winter. From the shortest tussock, looking like a sea urchin on land, to the tallest clump of blades and seed heads billowing in the wind, there are grasses to fit the bill. For all the boldness of the texture and form, many gardeners really enjoy seeing subtle details of color and texture when the plants come into bloom and we all have noticed the continued year-round statement made by decorative grasses. Its hard to imagine an environmentally sustainable landscape without grasses.
Blond Ambition Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis) New! Plant Select 2011! At nearly three times the height and width of our native blue gramma, this is a standout grass for the xeric flower bed! This warm season grass thrives in the heat of summer. What makes it such a unique grass is its blond seed heads with Maybelline eyelash style seed heads - Quite impressive! Handles all soil types.
This intense silver-blue grass is more upright than most Fescues and adds texture, and motion to a flower bed or a mixed prairie planting. Try mixing different blue fescues and Blue Avena Grass for an interesting range of sizes in a monochromatic color scheme! 15 inches tall and 12 inches wide.
A drought tolerant warm season native grass that blooms from summer to fall. A foundation grass in the Great and High Plains. Form is a basal cluster of short blades followed by an 18 inch to 3 ft tower depending upon water amount. Fluffy russet seed heads ripen in fall above foliage that also takes on burgundy color through winter. Blaze is greener in summer and more russet red in winter than the species. Height is 2-3 foot.
This cool season grass forms a beautiful blue-gray spraying mound of foliage that contrasts nicely with Blue Fescues in size while echoing them in color. The shape of this plant reminds us of fireworks spraying out from the ground. We feature this cultivar because the blades are a little wider and show off the color better than the species plant. Does well in clay soils. Height: 12-18 inches. To watch our VIDEO about Blue Oat Grass, CLICK HERE.
Plant Select® 2006 Think Big and Bold with this blue-green mounding fountain of a grass to add to your xeriscape garden or a well drained regular flower bed! At maturity the grass blades alone will be 3 - 4 feet tall and width to about 3 feet and the pinkish blooms maturing into white seed heads extending to 7 feet! Use as an accent, backdrop or even windbreak to show off this beauty! Windbreak.
Blue-gray blades form a dense upright clump topped by airy panicles 12 inches to 16 inches above the foliage in July. In fall the foliage turns yellow to red and the panicles become creamy tan. Expect to see this display through much of winter even with snow and wind. Tolerance of a wide range of soils and moisture levels make this warm season grass a great garden accent today. Originally, switch grasses grew in what are now nearly extinct remnants of tall grass prairie. Windbreak.
This eastern native grows like a tower, the narrow dark green leaves are topped with frothy wheat colored blooms in early summer. Who would ever guess that it had to go to Europe to be found and brought back as a sterile hybrid. No need to clip seed heads to prevent seedlings. Great for adding height to the garden! 4 feet tall, 2 feet wide. Windbreak.
‘09 Plant Select and ‘07 Great Plants Grass of the Year This elegant clump forming grass is airier and more open than its eastern American native cousin, Karl Foerster. The long, open feathery dark pink tinged flower panicles bloom from August to October, unlike the June blooming familiar Karl Foerster, and the clumps are not quite as vertically stiff either. With moderate soil moisture in full sun to partial shade in most soils, expect pleasing summer through winter presence.
New! We normally don't recommend miscanthus grass to our customers because of the specie's tendency to die off in the Wyoming winter. But we got very excited from work done at the University of Minnesota by Dr Meyer who's research showed this grass was tolerant of zone 4 winters! This is a large clump forming grass with outstanding red tones in both the grass blades and seed heads beginning in mid to late summer. In autumn, the whole plant turns a gorgeous red but the show doesn't stop there - in winter the seed heads turn an exquisite white. If you love ornamental grasses you need to consider this one!
Foliage emerges green with the ends tipped in red in spring on this cultivar of the warm season native grass. In summer reddish-pink seed heads form above reddish foliage that turns dark black purple in Fall, this selection is striking! Topping out at 3 feet.
 Vanilla Grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum)  New! This is a dense, clump forming grass - not spectacular to look at per se - but my oh my, it emits an exquisite vanilla fragrance when cut and dried. A great addition in potpourri as it retains the vanilla fragrance for years!
Height Width Zone Watering Sun 20 inches 12 inches 3 Full Sun
Size Cost Standard $4.00
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Blaze Little Blue Stem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
Blue Avena Oat Grass (Helictotrichon sempervirens)
Heavy Metal Switch Grass (Panicum virgatum ‘Heavy Metal’)
Korean Feather Reed Grass
(Calamagrostis brachytricha) 
Red-Silver Japanese Grass
(Miscanthus sinensis 'Rostilber') 
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