Plant Catalogue: Ornamental Grasses
BRIZA media var. limouzi. This ‘Quaking Grass’ always steals hearts with its rustling, dark flowers on wiry stems. 45cm. £4.30
B. m. ‘Russells’. A brilliant new introduction, similar in all respects to the type plant but with striking green/white variegated leaves. £4.50
CALAMAGROSTIS x acutiflora ‘Karl Foerster’. The vertical thrust of this plant, together with the bleached biscuit pallor of the spent flowers and stems provides a unique and highly effective feature from summer onwards. 180cm. £4.50
C. x acutiflora ‘Overdam’. Finely variegated leaves form a bold clump and in spring are attractively tinted with pink. The spent flowers are as effective as the above. 1.5m. £4.50
C. brachytricha. A late summer flowering grass from Korea where it grows at woodland fringes. The flower plumes open pink-purple and fade to a silvery hue. A dramatic grass when grown well. 1.2m. £4.50
*C. varia. Possesses all the attributes of the above. However, the flowers of this species are gracefully held on arching stems. 60cm. £4.50
CAREX elata aurea. Bowles’s Golden Sedge demands retentive soil to prosper. Quite brilliant in its effect. 45cm £4.50
C. muskingumensis ‘Oehme’. A striking form with a swish golden band to the edge of the leaf. 45cm. £4.50
*CHASMANTHIUM latifolium. The intriguing flat flowers of ‘Wood Oats’ are green on opening and persist in winter when they become copper flushed. Admire them in the garden or better still, pick them for the house. £4.80
CORTADERIA selloana pumila. At 2m this is the shortest of the Pampas grasses and less inclined to make a blot on the landscape than its kin. From refined, narrow leaved clumps a mature plant erupts in September in dozens of erect, cream coloured plumes, becoming in the process a remarkable landscape feature. £7.50
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