Plant Catalogue: Ornamental Grasses
DESCHAMPSIA cespitosa. The type species, strong growing, particularly so in sticky clay. The inflorescence creates the effect of a golden cloud. 1m. £4.30
D. flexuosa‘Tatra Gold’. Forms low, tufted mounds of narrow foliage, a lively gold-green through winter and spring. 25cm £4.30
*DIARRHENA japonica. Forms a broad, bright green mound of gently arching foliage. Just the ticket where a simple statement is needed. 60cm wide. £4.50
*ERAGROSTIS curvula. The narrow leaves of the ‘Love Grass’ will form a copious arching mound, topped in summer with greyish green plumes. Its striking wispy form in winter is also much admired here. 75cm. £4.30
*E. c. ‘Totnes Burgundy’. A selected form whose foliage develops a burgundy red caste. 75cm £4.50
FESTUCA glauca ‘Blaufuchs’. For those of you who enjoy the neatness of a fescue here’s one of the best, forming an inert, grey blob for the front of the border. 20cm £4.00
F. paniculata. New to us, so awaiting a glowing description! £4.50
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