Festuca glauca - blue fescue grass

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$5.00

Outstanding small ornamental grass, its fine leaves are steel-blue all year round. Neat, compact and rounded, it tucks into borders and baskets to provide colour and cool the soil; and the colour is a perfect match for the broader-leaved Carex Blue Cascade. Very low maintenance once established.

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Description

Festuca ovina glauca - blue fescue

APPEARANCE: Fine-leaved low-growing tussock grass with slender blue-grey foliage all year. Plants develop to a dense, rounded clump.
USES: Ideal used in rockeries, groundcover in borders, lawn alternative, edging, cottage style gardens, baskets and pots. Try planting within the foreground of a mixed selection of contrasting ornamental grass varieties for maximum impact.
PLANTING: Plant in a full sun or partly shaded position in the garden. Suited to container planting. Tolerates dry periods and cool climates., completely frost hardy
CARE: Mulch and water well until the plant is established, usually around 12 weeks. Fertilise with a slow release fertiliser during spring. Divide and replant every four or five years.
HEIGHT & WIDTH: 50 cm H x 50 cm W.
YOUR PLANTS: These plants are tube-stock plants, healthy young plants with new roots that will establish quickly in your garden. The pot size is 80mm high and 42 mm wide

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