GRASSES MAIL ORDER ORNAMENTAL GRASSES UK

Click for photo	GENUS	Species / CULTIVAR	Height/ spread (cm)	DESCRIPTION
Awaiting photo	Lagurus	ovatus 'Bunny Tails'	45 x 30	Very popular annual. Bears numerous very cute white flower plumes like bunnies' tails.
Awaiting photo	Libertia	peregrinans	40 x 40	Medium green, grass-like, vertical leaves with striking orange centre. White flowers are an added bonus.
	Luzula	nivea ('Lucius')	60 x 30	Snowy woodrush. Showiest of the wood rushes with clusters of white flowers held high above foliage. Moist soil.
	Luzula	sylvatica 'Hohe Tatra' ('Aurea', 'Tatra Gold')	60 x 100	From the Tatra mountains between Poland and Slovakia. Lime green wide leaves especially in shade. Moist soil, but drought tolerant.
	Luzula	sylvatica 'Variegatus' ('Marginata')	45 x 100	Discontinued.
Awaiting photo	Melica	altissima 'Atropurpurea' ('Purpurea', 'Rubra')	250 x 300	'Red Spire'. Long, deep mauve-purple flower spikes held high above foliage.
Awaiting photo	Melica	nutans	60 x 30	Appreciated for its nodding pearl-like spikelets. Part shade.
	Miscanthus	nepalensis	150 x 40	A beautiful grass from Nepal, bearing flower plumes that shimmer old gold. Needs sheltered spot in winter. Hayley's favourite.
	Miscanthus	sinensis 'China'	150 x 120	Broad leaves with white midribs, flushed red after hot summer. Large orange/bronze plumes.
	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Ferne Osten'	150 x 100	'Far East'. Shining, fluffy deep purple-red/brown flower spikes, ageing silver.
	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Flamingo'	150 x 120	Lovely in flower with large pink/wine red open inflorescences. Good planted in groups and obviously next to ponds!
	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Giganteus'	300 x 120	Fantastic specimen grass. A clump former to 3m, with 3cm wide leaves. Flowers with us every year, with plumes of many silky fingers to 20cm long. Often plants labelled Miscanthus floridulus are 'Giganteus'
Awaiting photo	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Gracillimus'	200 x 90	Maiden Grass. Perhaps the oldest cultivar from c.1878. Very narrow leaves and copper-red flower spikes in autumn. Graceful.
Awaiting photo	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Graziella'	180 x 120	Narrow leaves with large rose-purple nodding plumes, ageing silver.
Awaiting photo	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Hermann Müssel'	200 x 120	Leaves up to 2cm wide with prominent white midribs. Open plumes light red-brown, late summer with pendulous ginger coloured anthers.
Awaiting photo	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Malepartus'	180 x 120	Large heads of erect red-purple flower plumes. Suggested in RHS Grasses (Roger Grounds) as the standard by which to judge all others.
	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Morning Light'	150 x 120	Slender light green leaves edged white. Great in pots. Red/bronze flowers.
	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Puenktchen'	150 x 90	'Little dots'. Like a dwarf Zebra grass. Horizontal white bands on leaves stiffly held.
Awaiting photo	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Rotsilber'	150 x 120	'Silver-red'. Many large airy chestnut-red flower plumes ageing silver.
Awaiting photo	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Strictus'	180 x 75	Very erect form of Zebra Grass with white horizontal bands.
Awaiting photo	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Variegatus'	210 x 90	One of the oldest cultivars. Provides the strongest white landscape effect of all the miscanthus. Superb in containers.
	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Yakushima Dwarf'	100 x 100	Dwarf miscanthus with burgundy-red flower plumes.
	Miscanthus	sinensis 'Zebrinus'	240 x 120	Zebra Grass with white/yellow horizontal bands. Gracefully arching. Fantastic backlit by the sun.
	Molinia	caerulea 'Heidebraut'	150 x 120	Heather Bride. Green leaved and upright grass native to moist places. Attractive in flower.
	Molinia	caerulea 'Variegata'	100 x 60	Attractive green and yellow variegated leaves, age whiter. Airy green flower plumes, tinged dark purple.
	Ophiopogon	planiscapus 'Nigrescens'	20 x indef	Black grass-like plant. Popular for its unusual effect with bright contrasting plants, such as snowdrops and erigeron.