Festuca

Festuca amethystina

Festuca amethystina

Larger than f. glauca, but just as handsome. Good shades of blue. H 45 cm.-W 45 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 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.

Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue"

Festuca glauca 'ElijahBlue"

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 'GoldenToupee'

 Festuca 'GoldenToupee'

Turns more lime green and yellow in the summer H.25 cm.- W 30 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;