ornamental grasses - A Selection

A tall, elegant grass

Elevate your garden with the stunning Carex morrowii 'Irish Green'. This evergreen grass features long, arching leaves in a captivating emerald hue that gleam with a glossy finish. The plant forms a graceful mound, creating a dynamic visual element wherever it is placed. It's an excellent choice for enhancing winter containers or providing evergreen ground cover in both sunny and shaded areas. How to Grow: Light: Prefers partial shade to full sun. Temperature: Hardy and tolerant of varying

This clump-forming, perennial grass, produces a multitude of arching, dark green, linear leaves that form a rounded clump. Purple-black flower spikes rise above the foliage from June through to September.

Elevate your garden with the captivating Grass Ophiopogon Planiscapus Nigrescens. This hardy, clump-forming perennial boasts striking black grass-like foliage that adds a touch of drama to any landscape. In summer, delicate bell-shaped blooms emerge, followed by dark inky-blue berries, enhancing its allure. Evergreen Lilyturf serves as a stunning focal point in borders, offering 60% truly black foliage, complemented by lush dark green leaves. Perfect for containers, it adds texture and

Cortaderia selloana 'White', also known as Pampas Grass, is a hardy perennial that adds a touch of drama to any garden. With tall, sturdy stalks adorned with stunning plumes of feathery, white seed heads, this plant is a standout specimen. Pampas Grass is incredibly low-maintenance, requiring minimal care while providing year-round interest in the garden. It thrives in full sun and its tufted evergreen foliage adds texture and beauty to any landscape. With a height of up to 150cm and a spread

Robust sedge for pond margins or bog gardens with stiff, strap-like, glaucous green leaves that provide a striking vertical accent to pond margins and bog gardens.

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

A graceful, grass-like perennial with fine blue-green foliage and purple-black flowers, ideal for softening pond edges or enhancing boggy spots with a naturalistic feel.

With slender grassy foliage and an abundance of flower plumes, even from a young age, this superb perennial adds glamour, texture and movement to the garden. Features and Benefits The worlds first dwarf pampas grass Glamorous silvery plumes in late summer Perfect for smaller gardens and patio pots Adds texture and movement to the garden Planting time: March Flowering time: August Specifications Colour: Cream Model Number: KB8908

Miscanthus is a showy, robust, flamboyant grass, which can add a different look to your borders, all year round. The tall stems are topped with feathery plumes of rich copper, looking glorious above clumps of arching, grassy foliage.

Pennisetum alopecuroides, also known as Fountain Grass, is an ornamental grass that will bring texture and movement to your garden. It forms a neat clump of grassy foliage, making it an ideal choice for filling gaps in borders or creating natural-looking garden designs. In late summer, the plant produces dramatic spikelets resembling a squirrel's tail, providing a stunning display in the garden. These seedheads can be left on the plant throughout autumn, extending the ornamental interest.This

A tall, but airy and light ornamental grass

An evergreen, ornamental grass producing slender, copper-bronze, vertical foliage that will gradually create an arching mound. Also known as Leatherleaf Sedge, Carex Buchananii is simple to grow and makes a great accent plant that will suit a wide variety of garden styles. Height and spread: 50cm (20).

This award winning Zebra Grass boasts eye-catching blade-like foliage, each one decorated with cream, horizontal stripes. In autumn, lengthy flower plumes appear above the foliage, remaining well into winter. Miscanthus sinensis ?Zebrinus? is simple to grow and will make a wonderful focal point in a sunny spot in your garden. Height: 150cm (59?). Spread: 90cm (35?).

The exotic appearance of this perennial grass is undeniably impressive. The strong, upright stems reach up to 180cm (70) in height and are draped in variegated ribbon-like foliage with wide cream margins. The Giant Reed, grown for its dramatic foliage and bamboo-like stature, makes an elegant conservatory pot plant. In late summer, Arundo donax 'Variegata' can be grown at the back of moist, sunny borders to add height and architecture. This half-hardy perennial should be lifted and moved to a

Carex 'Milk Chocolate' is an excellent evergreen perennial grass. It looks best when planted in large swaths throughout the borders or in winter containers. This clump-forming sedge is grown for its slender chocolate brown foliage with a sheer pink touch at the leaf edges. As autumn approaches, the dense foliage transforms into appealing shades of orange and brown. It is the perfect perennial grass to add texture and winter interest to your garden! Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 40cm (16).