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Tussock grass care is minimal and the plant provides an easy-to-grow mass of fine texture with cloudy, upright flowers. Highly ornamental, Tufted Hairgrass has fine hair-like flowers rising feet above neatly rounded, dense tussocks. The grass emerges green and turns gold late in the season, keeping good color and form for winter interest. This clump-forming cool-season grass is useful for stabilizing disturbed sites, streambanks and shorelines.
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Gardening: The art of planting The Independent - The Independent
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This guide covers how to plant and grow tufted hair grass, which differs from many drought-resistant prairie grasses. This grass has dark green leaves with cloud-like green to gold inflorescence in summer that turns to light golden straw color that lasts into winter. Clumped, densely tufted mass of fine, narrow leaves that are upright and open with fine texture. It will grow in full sun but reduces the quality of foliage and flower. Plant tufted hair grass in USDA Hardiness Zones 4 to 8. Use it in garden beds, containers, and naturalized areas.
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'Northern Lights'
The variegated blades turn from creamy white in summer to pink as the weather cools in fall. Sometimes, foliage alone adds height, shapes or textures to your garden. Northern Lights Tufted Hairgrass adds year-round interest.
A distinguishing feature is the upper surface of the leaf blade which feels rough and can cut in one direction, but is smooth in the opposite direction. The dark green upper sides of the leaves are deeply grooved. ◆ TruGreen will gladly visit your property as needed between scheduled visits to ensure your satisfaction. ✦ Purchase of full lawn plan required for Healthy Lawn Analysis, which is performed at the first visit.
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The dense, fountain-shaped clumps of Mexican feather grass stems have a fuzzy appearance; they soften hardscape features in the landscape and make them more welcoming. For this purpose, growing several plants in a line is especially effective for forming a border (for example, along a patio). Its light color (the leaves are a silvery green to lime-green) makes it a good foil for darker plants, for which the plant can be used as a backdrop. It is also a good plant to use in borders for cottage gardens. Often planted in groups or masses in a naturalized landscape, tufted hair grass grows well in partial sun or shade in moist soil. Match the plant to the conditions in your garden, remembering that it will turn brown if allowed to dry out.
Grassy Weeds
Still, annuals produce tons of seeds that can infest and dominate your yard under the right conditions. Mexican feather grass doesn't need pruning, but you may want to trim away dead flowers and overgrown stems at the end of the season, as you tidy them up for dormancy. Use a clean, sharp garden shears and clear away the debris, so the detritus doesn't accidentally reseed. Many of the ornamental grasses are suited for dry, sunny locations. Gardeners with predominantly shady locations that yearn for the movement and sound of grasses may have trouble finding suitable specimens. Tufted hairgrass, however, is perfectly suited for such locations.
An excellent shade garden grass, Deschampsia cespitosa is attractive when mixed with ferns. Consistent, medium to moist soil is needed when planted in full sun. It is a larval food plant for several butterflies in North America including the Umber Skipper. Tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa) is a native ornamental grass that looks gorgeous in garden beds and containers with trailing annuals.
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Due to the seasonal nature of plants, availability at your local garden center is not guaranteed. Please note, not all garden centers participate as delivery locations for online orders. Native plants can be grown outside of their native range in the appropriate growing conditions. This map shows the native range, as well as the introduced range, of this species. Tufted hair grass seed can be sown in a prepared garden bed in spring.
Leaves to 5mm wide with strong parallel ridges and furrows on the upper side. We ship only when it's warm enough to plant in your growing zone.Sometimes plants aren't completely ready to sell and ship in early spring. Plant Addicts always guarantees your plant(s) will arrive happy & healthy.
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