NURSERY · ORNAMENTAL GRASSES

Ornamental Grasses

Movement and late season colour. Grasses carry a planting scheme from midsummer into winter, when almost everything else has finished.

Mondo Grass

Ophiopogon japonicus

Not a true grass but a dense evergreen tuft that spreads slowly into an unbroken dark green carpet. The classic solution for shaded ground where lawn refuses to grow, and for planting between stepping stones.

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Lilyturf

Liriope muscari

Strap-like arching foliage topped with violet flower spikes in late summer, followed by black berries. Tougher and more sun tolerant than mondo grass, and excellent as a low edging along a path or drive.

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Purple Fountain Grass

Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum'

Burgundy foliage and soft purple plumes that catch low sun and move constantly in the slightest breeze. The most-planted ornamental grass in the region, and deservedly so.

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Chinese Silver Grass

Miscanthus sinensis

A large architectural grass forming a substantial arching clump, with silky plumes from late summer that dry to pale silver and stand right through winter. Superb backlit by low autumn sun.

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Pink Muhly Grass

Muhlenbergia capillaris

Unremarkable for most of the year, then in autumn it produces a cloud of airy pink-purple flower heads that seems to float above the foliage. Nothing else in the catalogue does anything comparable.

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Blue Fescue

Festuca glauca

Neat, compact hemispheres of intense steel-blue foliage, useful as a repeated accent in gravel planting or along the front of a bed. Small enough to work in a container or a narrow border.

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Pampas Grass

Cortaderia selloana

The largest grass here by a wide margin, throwing towering cream plumes from late summer that persist deep into winter. A dramatic screening plant that needs real space and honest handling.

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Spiny-head Mat Rush

Lomandra longifolia

An extremely tough evergreen strappy plant that looks like an ornamental grass and survives conditions that kill most of them. Handles drought, poor soil, shade, and foot traffic on a bank.

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Tasman Flax-lily

Dianella tasmanica

Arching blue-green strap foliage with sprays of small violet flowers followed by unusually intense blue-purple berries. Variegated forms are widely used to lighten shaded planting.

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Planting something larger?

If you are planning a full garden, an orchard, or a landscape project, we can design and install it rather than supply it plant by plant.

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