Introducing...
Festuca
Botanical name: Festuca
Common name: fescue
These low-growing, compact, mounding-forming plants can have green, blue or golden leaves. Use them to edge a border or combine them with herbaceous perennials and other ornamental grasses. Most are evergreen and useful in containers for winter interest. In summer they have delicate wand-like flowers.
Looks
With narrow grey-green or steely-blue leaves, these compact grasses form low tufted mounds. In summer, thin, upright stems carry spikes of small flowers.
Likes
Grow in full sun, in free-draining soil that is moderately fertile to poor. They are happy in containers as well as borders.
Dislikes
These grasses are usually short-lived in damp, heavy or very fertile soil. The leaf colour is better in sun than in shade.
Did you know?
Festuca have real impact when planted en masse, providing a contemporary feel.
Growing guide
How to grow festuca
All the information you’ll need to grow and care for festuca can be found in the 911±¬ÁÏ guide to ornamental grasses
Festuca we recommend
Festuca glauca Intense Blue ('Casblue'PBR)
blue fescue [Intense Blue]
- 0.1–0.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Festuca glauca 'Golden Toupee'
blue fescue 'Golden Toupee'
- 0.1–0.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'
blue fescue 'Elijah Blue'
- 0.1–0.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Festuca glauca Intense Blue ('Casblue'PBR)
blue fescue [Intense Blue]
- 0.1–0.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Festuca glauca 'Golden Toupee'
blue fescue 'Golden Toupee'
- 0.1–0.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'
blue fescue 'Elijah Blue'
- 0.1–0.5 metres
- 0.1–0.5 metres
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