ornamental grasses - A Selection

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln,' commonly known as Fountain Grass, is a stunning ornamental grass that provides year-round interest in your garden. This hardy and low-maintenance plant quickly forms a neat clump, making it ideal for filling gaps in perennial and shrub borders. While its grassy foliage remains understated for much of the year, it truly shines in late summer when the beautiful, spikelet-like flower heads appear, resembling a squirrel's tail. These decorative seed heads can be

Bring movement and texture to your garden with Carex ‘Feather Falls’, a beautiful variegated ornamental grass that adds year-round interest to borders, containers and shaded spots. This compact Japanese Sedge features elegant, arching leaves in rich green with bold creamy-white edges, forming a graceful fountain of foliage that remains evergreen throughout the winter. Perfect for softening hard edges or filling in gaps, it’s equally at home cascading from patio pots or planted en

A colourful, undemanding and adaptable sedge

The Pampas in Amber Vase Arrangement is the perfect Pampas arrangement for your home, adding a pop of colour and a natural feel to any space. The stunning piece will help to add interest to spare corners of your room thanks to the large fluffy pampas stems and will provide a great finishing touch thanks to the neutral tones and amber glass. It's sure to look gorgeous on accent tables, shelves, and mantelpieces.

Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance' is an attractive sedge with arching variegated foliage that really catches the eye. In late spring, it is decorated with small, white flower spikes. This hardy perennial grass has a dense, clump forming habit that makes it well suited to the front of borders, rockeries or patio containers. An easy evergreen grass that is virtually maintenance free. Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance' thrives in any rich, fertile soil and will happily grow in a light shade. Height: 40cm (14).

Pennisetum viridescens is a variety of Fountain Grass that adds texture, height and movement to gardens. Slender foliage stems sway in the breeze elegantly in large or small gardens. Feathery plumes emerge on stems flushed in black colour, for an intriguing display. Pennisetum viridescens is easy to grow and needs little maintenance to keep looking great. Grow as a specimen plant or in grass schemes. Height: 100cm (39). Spread: 100cm (39).

Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster' is an easy to grow towering ornamental grass that is suitable for mixed borders. The leaves arch gracefully but the real stand out featurs are the bronze coloured feathery panicles that can reach up to 1.8 metres high during the summer. You can rely on Calamagrostis to burst into growth quickly each spring and because of it's height it could be used as a light and airy screen. Height: 1.8m (5.9') Spread: 50cm (19).

An ornamental, arching sedge with evergreen, mounding orange-red foliage

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

Fountain Grasses will always add a certain elegance to any garden, large or small. The evergreen leaves arch gracefully back to allow the tall stems of the flower heads to push upwards.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Volcano' produces arching, slender leafed foliage year after year. Grow as a deciduous perennial, mixed within ornamental grass borders or as a specimen plant. Late summer sees red-brown blooms bursting above the foliage, adding texture and movement as they sway in the breeze. Upright growth habit that brings height to the back of borders, as well as structure and intrigue. Miscanthus sinensis 'Volcano' grows neat and compact, making it suitable for most gardens, big or

Bring movement and texture to your garden with Carex ‘Feather Falls’, a beautiful variegated ornamental grass that adds year-round interest to borders, containers and shaded spots. This compact Japanese Sedge features elegant, arching leaves in rich green with bold creamy-white edges, forming a graceful fountain of foliage that remains evergreen throughout the winter. Perfect for softening hard edges or filling in gaps, it’s equally at home cascading from patio pots or planted en

A colourful ornamental grass to add movement and textural interest

An easy to grow evergreen plant for patio pots, borders and rockeries. Festuca glauca has grassy leaves, which are an unusual shade of cobalt blue. An excellent plant for designing in the garden, thanks to the architectural appearance.

A striking species for prairie borders where it can reach a good height of up to 1m (3?) with maturity. Carex testacea forms a dense clump of grassy foliage that slowly transforms from olive-green in summer to a rich orange-bronze in autumn.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Graziella' is a perennial, deciduous grass variety that forms dense clumps of slender green foliage. Works well as a specimen plant or mixed within an ornamental grass scheme, its height and texture adds intrigue. Silver-white blooms emerge from the top of the plant in August to September. While foliage transforms into copper tones into autumn, fading away in winter. Leave to overwinter, as stems and flower heads become coated in frost when the coldest months arrive.