Festuca ovina 'Eiler's Beauty'™ - FESCUE 'EILER'S BEAUTY'™
Drought and heat tolerant cool season grass, very adaptable from full sun to dry shade.
Chartreuse flowers age to tan and light brown color.
Matte green fine foliage.
Blooming time: from June till late summer
Size: 20" tall x 20' wide
USDA Zones: 4 to 8
Culture: full sun, part shade, will grow quite well in dry shade. Sandy soils, well drained soils, dry soils, xeriscape, rocky, gravelly soils, average, tolerant to clay, heat, humidity, drought. Adaptable
Moisture Needs: average (medium) to medium-dry, dry
Origin: Europe. Seeds were collected in Turkey by famous Henry Eilers, a botanist by love and horticulturalist by trade. Now propagated from divisions (clonaly). It seems to be local variation of Festuca ovina, but it's not fully confirmed, so often it's mentioned only as Festuca 'Eiler's Beauty'.Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: no
Attracts Hummingbirds: no, but beneficial to birds
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: For naturalistic gardens, urban ares (traffic islands, etc), rock gardens, dry slopes, dry meadows, erosion control on sandy soils. Can be planted as an individual accent, in small groups.
Good companions can be Agastache, Amsonia, Asclepias, Asters, Baptisia, Coreopsis, Eryngium juccifolium, Echinacea, Gaura, Liatris, Penstemons, Yucca, or other native grasses like Boutelloa curtipendula, Sporobolus heterolepis, Panicum.
And non-native perennials like Achillea, summer blooming Allium, Aquilegia, Calamintha, Geranium, Gypsohila, Iris x barbata, Iris sibirica, Leucanthemum x superbum, Nepeta, Origanum, Paeonia, Perovskia, Platycodon, Salvia, tall Sedum, Sempervivum, Stachys,
Pictures Copyright: 1 - courtesy of Mary H. Meyer, Ph.D. Professor, grasstalk.wordpress.com,
Festuca ovina 'Eiler's Beauty'™ - FESCUE 'EILER'S BEAUTY'™
Drought and heat tolerant cool season grass, very adaptable from full sun to dry shade.
Chartreuse flowers age to tan and light brown color.
Matte green fine foliage.
Blooming time: from June till late summer
Size: 20" tall x 20' wide
USDA Zones: 4 to 8
Culture: full sun, part shade, will grow quite well in dry shade. Sandy soils, well drained soils, dry soils, xeriscape, rocky, gravelly soils, average, tolerant to clay, heat, humidity, drought. Adaptable
Moisture Needs: average (medium) to medium-dry, dry
Origin: Europe. Seeds were collected in Turkey by famous Henry Eilers, a botanist by love and horticulturalist by trade. Now propagated from divisions (clonaly). It seems to be local variation of Festuca ovina, but it's not fully confirmed, so often it's mentioned only as Festuca 'Eiler's Beauty'.Deer/Rabbit Resistant: yes / yes
Attracts Butterflies or Pollinators: no
Attracts Hummingbirds: no, but beneficial to birds
Pot Size: square 3.5" x 4" deep perennial pot
Plant Combinations: For naturalistic gardens, urban ares (traffic islands, etc), rock gardens, dry slopes, dry meadows, erosion control on sandy soils. Can be planted as an individual accent, in small groups.
Good companions can be Agastache, Amsonia, Asclepias, Asters, Baptisia, Coreopsis, Eryngium juccifolium, Echinacea, Gaura, Liatris, Penstemons, Yucca, or other native grasses like Boutelloa curtipendula, Sporobolus heterolepis, Panicum.
And non-native perennials like Achillea, summer blooming Allium, Aquilegia, Calamintha, Geranium, Gypsohila, Iris x barbata, Iris sibirica, Leucanthemum x superbum, Nepeta, Origanum, Paeonia, Perovskia, Platycodon, Salvia, tall Sedum, Sempervivum, Stachys,
Pictures Copyright: 1 - courtesy of Mary H. Meyer, Ph.D. Professor, grasstalk.wordpress.com,