Blue Grasses

Grass. Corynephorus canescens 'Silver Grass'

Grass. Corynephorus canescens 'Silver Grass'

The Grey Hair Grass". An increasingly rare British native, this is a charming little grass forms tussocks 30-cm tall The overall colour is more a grey than a blue. Thin fine rolled eaves with attractive flower heads, blue grey becoming more reddish. Requires full sun poor soil and is a first class for sandy coastal areas.

Elymus Magellanicum a.k.a (Agropyron.M) Blue Magellan Wheatgrass.

Elymus Magellanicum a.k.a (Agropyron.M) Blue Magellan Wheatgrass.

"Blue Magellan Wheatgrass" From the Magellan straights of South Americas Cape Horn (named after the navigator Magellan and from whom this grass gets its name) This tufted clump former has the most intense blue foliage of all the grasses. Its colour is so strong other traditional bluish grasses pale into insignificants. A cool season grower it needs sharply drained soil especially in wet winter areas such as the SW and welcomes some light shade to relieve the summer sulks. Drought tolerant and loves the seaside. It makes a superb container specimen. Zone 6 Hardy.

TFestuca glauca 'Blue Azurit'

Festuca glauca 'Blue Azurit'

Loved by garden designers for its clean lined silver blueness. Looks good in metal containers. The perfect plant for the North or North West in Feng Shui Gardens H 30 cm. - W 60 cm. Festuca are easy to grow and attractive. Small, narrow leaved, that do well in drier sites and on poor or acid soils. Avoid chalk or alkaline soils. They do best in full sun and with good drainage. looking very good with sedges and grasses of a similar height.

TitleFestuca glauca 'Elijah Blue"

Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue"

Probably the most popular of the Festuca, certainly the most intense in colour. H 30 cm.-W 90 cm. Festuca are easy to grow and attractive. Small, narrow leaved, that do well in drier sites and on poor or acid soils. Avoid chalk or alkaline soils. They do best in full sun and with good drainage. looking very good with sedges and grasses of a similar height.            

Festuca punctoria. "The Hedgehog Festuca"

Festuca punctoria. "The Hedgehog Festuca"

Originating in western Asia, and also known as Hedgehog Festuca. A very hardy little Festuca, punctoria makes a splendid  architectural accent in the garden with its sharp-pointed, blue-green leaves creating a wonderful prickly dome. A densely clumping perennial with erect culms 18-30 cm long. Fertile  spikelets comprising 4–6 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets elliptic, or oblong; and laterally compressed; 7–8 mm long.