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Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' - FEATHER REED GRASS 'KARL FOERSTER'
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Popular and truly excellent ornamental grass with wonderful vertical structure and very long ornamental value from May to February. Adaptable, drought tolerant and tough.
First grass that received the Perennial Plant of the Year Award in 2001.
This grass forms very narrow vertical clumps, with 1.5-2' leaves at the base. The full height is 5-6' with flowering stems,and it grows up to 2' wide.
This is a cool season grass (the major growth happens in cooler part of the year), so the leaves and flowers appear very early. In May, pink-purple typical grass flowers change to yellow, then pale brown-yellow in the winter. Feathery flowers stay on the plant until you cut the plant back in pre-spring, they persist even through snow (unless there is very heavy and wet snowfalls).
Best in full sun (flowers a bit less in half shade), adaptable to all soil including clay, happy with average rain fall (medium-dry to moist soil).
This hybrid Calamagrostis has sterile seeds, so it doesn't self seed, and is probably a natural hybrid between Calamagrostis arundinacea (Europe) and Calamagrostis epigejos (Asia). The cultivar name honors famous German nurseryman Karl Foerster, who discovered this plant in the Hamburg Botanical Garden in the 1930s and later introduced it into commerce in 1950.
The plant is deer and rabbit resistant, black walnut tolerant and hardy in zones 4 to 7.
Versatile use grass - awesome in public spaces, private gardens, modern landscaping and modern architecture, but looks good in any flower bed in full sun, as a background for lower perennials, and naturalistic plantings or even cottage gardens or prairie type of gardens. Can be used in rain gardens.
Can be combined with very wide selection of perennials and other grasses; it naturally looks good with daisy-like flowers such as Echinacea, Rudbeckia, and Coreopsis, but also Perovskia, Caryopteris, and grasses like Panicum, Sporobolus, Spodiopogon or Pennisetum.
Picture copyright: US Perennials nursery
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' - FEATHER REED GRASS 'KARL FOERSTER'
$8.99
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Popular and truly excellent ornamental grass with wonderful vertical structure and very long ornamental value from May to February. Adaptable, drought tolerant and tough.
First grass that received the Perennial Plant of the Year Award in 2001.
This grass forms very narrow vertical clumps, with 1.5-2' leaves at the base. The full height is 5-6' with flowering stems,and it grows up to 2' wide.
This is a cool season grass (the major growth happens in cooler part of the year), so the leaves and flowers appear very early. In May, pink-purple typical grass flowers change to yellow, then pale brown-yellow in the winter. Feathery flowers stay on the plant until you cut the plant back in pre-spring, they persist even through snow (unless there is very heavy and wet snowfalls).
Best in full sun (flowers a bit less in half shade), adaptable to all soil including clay, happy with average rain fall (medium-dry to moist soil).
This hybrid Calamagrostis has sterile seeds, so it doesn't self seed, and is probably a natural hybrid between Calamagrostis arundinacea (Europe) and Calamagrostis epigejos (Asia). The cultivar name honors famous German nurseryman Karl Foerster, who discovered this plant in the Hamburg Botanical Garden in the 1930s and later introduced it into commerce in 1950.
The plant is deer and rabbit resistant, black walnut tolerant and hardy in zones 4 to 7.
Versatile use grass - awesome in public spaces, private gardens, modern landscaping and modern architecture, but looks good in any flower bed in full sun, as a background for lower perennials, and naturalistic plantings or even cottage gardens or prairie type of gardens. Can be used in rain gardens.
Can be combined with very wide selection of perennials and other grasses; it naturally looks good with daisy-like flowers such as Echinacea, Rudbeckia, and Coreopsis, but also Perovskia, Caryopteris, and grasses like Panicum, Sporobolus, Spodiopogon or Pennisetum.
Picture copyright: US Perennials nursery
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