ornamental grasses - A Selection

Enhance your garden with the Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln', commonly known as Fountain Grass. This highly decorative ornamental grass offers exceptional, year-round interest, quickly forming attractive clumps that are perfect for filling gaps in perennial and shrub borders. Its neat, grassy foliage remains understated until late summer when the magnificent flower heads emerge, resembling fluffy squirrel tails, adding a soft, misty effect and a touch of elegance. This graceful, deciduous

Carex panicea is a graceful, grass-like perennial ideal for softening pond edges or enhancing boggy spots with a naturalistic feel. Its fine, blue-green foliage forms neat, semi-evergreen clumps that bring texture and colour all year round. Delicate brown flower spikes appear in summer, arching elegantly above the leaves. A native to the UK, it not only adds visual charm but also offers shelter and habitat for aquatic creatures and other wildlife. Perfect for low-maintenance, wildlife-friendly

A clump forming hardy perennial that produces eye-catching, aromatic, semi-evergreen leaves, variegated green with white margins. Acorus gramineus 'Variegatus' has a neat and compact habit and creates sprays of foliage that adds excellent colour and texture in the garden. This Slender Sweet Flag is perfect for pond edges and bog gardens where it will require very little maintenance. Height: 25cm (10). Spread: 35cm (14). Planting depth: Zone 1 & 2 to 5cm depth.

A fantastic way to introduce late-season colour, height and structure to a mixed border or gravel garden, Miscanthus ?Indian Summer? is tall, fast growing and incredibly low maintenance with wonderful bronze hue.

A decorative, low-growing grass

Small, variegated, evergreen grass

Dramatic and architectural

This vibrant evergreen Sedge is just what you need to add some colour and texture to your borders and flower beds. ?Green? produces arching, slender leaflets that provide a clump forming habit and architectural interest all year round. This Carex generates delicate blooms from July until September, it makes exciting ground cover and adds lots of ornamental value to dull spaces. Great for adding to rockeries, alpines and cottage gardens, you can count on ?Green? to also make a sufficient accent

Cortaderia selloana Duo comprises two spectacular Pampas grasses, one with classic white plumes and the other with rosy pink plumes.

Carex muskingumensis is a clump-forming semi-evergreen sedge with bright green, leaves that fan out in arching sprays in palm-like fashion. From May to July it is topped with golden brown flowers on tall stems.Low-maintenance and hardy, Carex muskingumensis slowly spreads via rhizomes, forming dense colonies that offer excellent ground cover and habitat for wildlife. A native of swamps and damp meadows, it grows in reliably moist soils to shallow water and is perfect for bog gardens or pond

Acorus calamus is a non-invasive rush that whilst strictly non-native, has been naturalised in the wild since the 17th century. This well behaved rhizomatous perennial forms slowly spreading clumps in shallow water or boggy ground, with flat, blade-like, fresh green foliage and clusters of arum-like flowers from May to July. The leaves have a sweet citrus smell when crushed. Acorus calamus is useful for creating natural sweeps of foliage to define pond edges as well as providing a hiding place

This pretty deciduous grass is perfect for bringing texture and late summer interest to the garden. With a neat, clump forming habit, it boasts slender green foliage that arches gently at the tips.

Miscanthus sinesis 'Strictus', an RHS AGM variety of ornamental grass that provides silver bloom plumes in late summer that become decorated with frost through winter. Foliage is deciduous, slender and spiky, growing upright in gold tones that fade away through cold months. Reliable and easy to grow, this perennial will return year after year. Height: 2m (6?). Spread: 60cm (2?).

Acorus gramineus 'Ogon', also known as Slender Sweet Flag, is a showy aquatic perennial that’s primarily grown for its attractive foliage. It features arching, yellow and green variegated leaves that create wide fans, adding beauty to the edges of ponds and water features. This aromatic semi-evergreen plant forms low clumps. It thrives in moist conditions, making it ideal for bog gardens or as a marginal aquatic plant at the water's edge. With a height of 25cm and spread of 35cm, it can be

Calamagrostis is a spectacular, ornamental grass for any mixed garden border. 'Karl Foerster' is a well known border plant, with arching leaves, and bronze feathery panicles during summer.A useful ornamental grass, which is quick to emerge each spring. Calamagrostis can be planted to form a feathery screen, and is fast-growing and easy to maintain.Height: 1.8m (5.9') Spread: 50cm (19).

Handsome flower plumes