You Garden - 3 x Imperata Blood Grass 'Red Baron' 3 Plants in 9cm Pots - Decorative Grass for Gardens - Garden Ready Established Red Ornamental Grass (3 x 9cm Pot)

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Bothriochloa bladhii narrow linear light-green leaves turn red in autumn and silvery spikeletslate summer. Height 40-150cm (16-60ins)

Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' (blue fescue) (e) intense ice-blue fine, linear leaves. Height to 30cm (1ft) T. triandra occurs on a wide variety of soils from sandy soils to heavy clays. There seems to be little association between abundance of T. triandra and a specific soil type. It is often common in areas where moisture collects and grazing is light, such as along roadsides or railway lines.

Flowers

Panicum virgatum 'Shenandoah' AGM (switch grass) glaucous blue-green stems and foliage, airy panicles ofpurple-tinged pink flowers. Height 2m (6½ft) or more

The flower-head is a long cylindrical shape (2-13cm long and 5-10mm wide) with a blunt end. It looks furry (like a fox's tail). In spring many grasses start to show new growth and a few will begin to produce flowers. Ones with particular spring interest include: Molinia caerulea subsp. arundinacea 'Skyracer (a) (purple moor grass)mid-green leaves turn clear gold in autumn. Height to 2.1m (7ft)Miscanthus nepalensis airy metallic-gold flower tassels from midsummer onwards,above mounds of dark green foliage. Height to 1.5m (5ft)

Themeda triandra is a grass which grows in dense tufts up to 1.5 metres (4ft 11in) tall and 0.5 metres (1ft 8in) wide. It flowers in summer, producing large red-brown spikelets on branched stems. [3] The leaves are 10–30 centimetres (3.9–11.8in) in length and 1–8 millimetres (0.039–0.315in) wide [4] but can exceed 10–50 centimetres (3.9–19.7in) long and 2–5 millimetres (0.079–0.197in) wide. [3] Its inflorescence is compounded, fasciculated, is 10–30 centimetres (3.9–11.8in) long and composed of a single raceme. It pedicels are oblong and are 0.5mm long while its lemma is 25–70 millimetres (0.98–2.76in) long and is both apical and geniculate. The column of lemma's awn is hispidulous and twisted. [4]

Red Grass Habitat

Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem) blue-green leaves turn purple in autumn when tall stems bear deep red-purple racemes. Height to 2m (6ft) Carex dipsacea (sedge) slightly penduluous foliage of dark-green and olive changes to pinkish-bronze during winter. Height 40-50cm (16-20ins) Stipa tenuissima (c) densely tufted with filament-like bright green leaves and masses of softly feathery, greenish-white flower panicles persist into winter. Height to 60cm (2ft) Tall ornamental grassessuitable for screening Koeleria glauca (glaucous hair grass) compact mound of glaucous, grey-green leaves and masses of upright stems bearing cylindrical panicles of silvery spikelets. Height to 40cm (16ins)