Grasses

This grass has a remarkable tolerance for extreme climates and is not invasive. It displays soft, feathery green plumes during the summer, maturing into stiff, wheat-coloured spikes that last into winter.

It is generally used in large groupings towards the back of borders, but is also effective as a single plant that can be easily divided in spring. Prune down to the ground in March. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 4 - 5'

• Width: 4'

Zone: 3

Photos of Jeffries Nurseries

Best as an indoor plant or outdoors in warm climates. Unique leaves resemble fiber-optic cables orbiting around the plant. Adds interest in mixed containers. Looks great in pots and along walkways.

Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun

Height: 6 - 8" (15 - 20cm)

Width: 18 - 20" (46 - 51cm)

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Horticulture- https://www.ballseed.com

A compact ornamental grass that features elegantly arched, variegated leaves that will mature into a dusty-grey pink into the fall season. a cool season grass that is fast growing and reliable. 

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 24 - 36"

Zone: 4A

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa

Ornamental Grasses can add height, colour, and texture to flower beds and planters. In the correct conditions they can grow nearly a metre tall. They cannot handle our harsh winters. 

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Mature Size:

• Height: 18" - 30"
• Spread: 24" - 36"

Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

 A great choice for rock gardens and natural-looking landscapes. The grass grows to nearly 3 feet tall and is low maintenance. The variegated foliage will turn from creamy white in summer to pink as the weather cools in fall and return to its creamy-white color again in spring as new blades grow.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Part Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 12 - 36"

• Width: 12 - 18"

Zone: 4

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Seed Company

Ornamental Grasses can add height, colour, and texture to flower beds and planters. In the correct conditions they can grow nearly a metre tall. They cannot handle our harsh winters.

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season: Spring, Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 30" - 36"
• Spread: 12" - 24"

 Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

Ornamental Grasses can add height, colour, and texture to flower beds and planters. In the correct conditions they can grow nearly a metre tall. They cannot handle our harsh winters. 

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season: Spring, Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 4' - 6'
• Spread: 3' - 4'

Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

'Blue Fescue' ornamental grass has slender, wiry blades of blue. It is a tidy evergreen that is very tolerant of a wide range of sites and conditions. This grass is perfect for a brightly coloured, mounding accent plant for borders, rockeries or even containers. 

Low maintenance, plant in a sunny location with well drained soil. 

Light Requirement: Full to Part Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 24"
  
• Spread: 24"
  

Zone: 4

A unique addition as an annual planting. This grass grows thick if kept moist in well drained soil, it adds color and texture to your flower beds or containers.

When in bloom, the flowers seem to dance above the foliage for a great feature in a landscape or mixed container.

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 48 - 72" 

Width: 24 - 28" 

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Horticulture- https://www.ballseed.com

Whimsical and unique texture for container or garden! An inspired combination, offering the contrast of shiny blue and green along with straight and twisted stems. Nice water garden feature.

Light Requirement: Partial Sun

Mature Size:

• Height: 18" - 36"

• Width: 12" - 18"

Photos courtesy of Ball Seed

Ornamental Grasses can add height, colour, and texture to flower beds and planters. In the correct conditions they can grow nearly a metre tall. They cannot handle our harsh winters.

Light Requirement: Sun

Flower Season: Spring, Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 24" - 30"
• Spread: 18" - 24"

 Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

Upright habit with late season flowers. Leave foliage for winter garden interest.

Looks great in pots and along walkways 

Exposure: Full Sun

Height: 16 - 24" (41 - 61cm)

Width: 24" (61cm)

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Horticulture- https://www.ballseed.com

Ornamental Grasses can add height, colour, and texture to flower beds and planters. In the correct conditions they can grow nearly a metre tall. They cannot handle our harsh winters. 

Light Requirement: Part Sun to Sun

Flower Season: Spring, Summer, Fall

Mature Size:

• Height: 18" - 2'
• Spread: 12" - 18" 

Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com

Thin green and white foliage with feathery summer plumes that turn striking gold in fall. Low maintenance.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 24 - 36"

• Width: 18- 24"

Zone: 4A

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa

‘Heavy Metal’ is a favorite switchgrass, well-loved for its dramatic, metallic blue foliage and for its strong upright habit that remains standing straight and tall. Pink-tinted, airy blooms appear in July, highlighting the color of its blue leaves. This blue switchgrass serves as a colorful backdrop to other grasses and perennials, looks stunning in masses, and provides a focal point when used as a specimen.

Light Requirement: Full to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 48"
  
• Spread: 36"
  

Zone: 4

Chartreuse foliage is more prominent when planted in partial sun. Foliage will be more burgundy in full sun. Improves architecture of mixed combination plantings

Exposure: Partial Sun, Sun

Height: 48 - 60"

Width: 8 - 12" 

Photos and Data Courtesy of Ball Horticulture- https://www.ballseed.com

It forms narrow, graceful clumps of green foliage with striking silver-white plumes that transform into deep red-bronze in the fall. Ideal for placement at the back of borders, as a hedge, or screen.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 60 - 72"

• Width: 24 -36"

Zone: 4B

Photos courtesy of Van Noort Bulb Co. & Florissa

Green leaves are striped down the middle with golden-yellow. Forms an upright narrow clumps.

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Part Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 48 - 60"

• Width: 36-48"

Zone: 3

Double, ivory-white blooms over a low mound of deep green foliage, Peter Upright narrow10-12cm/4-6 in dense pink/purple feathery heads atop fine green leaves. Great for rock gardens large planters, cut and dried arrangements! Ht: 60 -80 cm

Melinis nerviglumis 'Savannah'. So named for its deep red panicles, this lovely ornamental grass begins as a very round clump of blue green foliage about 25cm (10") wide. Then, in mid-summer, the flowering stalks begin to appear, starting red, but fading to pink and then to creamy silver at maturity. By the middle of August, all the colours are present, with some flower stalks as tall as 90cm (36").

Annual

Light Requirement: Full Sun to Partial Shade

Mature Size:

• Height: 2.5'

• Width: 1.5'

Zone: 3a

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Ornamental Grasses can add height, colour, and texture to flower beds and planters. In the correct conditions they can grow nearly a metre tall. They cannot handle our harsh winters.

Light Requirement: Sun

Flower Season: Spring, Summer

Mature Size:

• Height: 48" - 96"
• Spread: 24" - 36"

 Photos and Data Courtesy of Proven Winners - www.provenwinners.com