Festuca Amethystina Grasses
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Festuca Amethystina (Tufted Fescue)
The delightful Festuca Amethystina are compact, densely tufted, hardy evergreen grasses. These super little plants have finely textured blue green foliage, topped in early Summer with attractive ornamental long green stems carrying delicate feathered purplish pink flowers that turn buff as the seeds ripen.
Festuca Amethystina (Tufted Fescue) grasses are best planted in a sunny location in the garden. Try planting in a gravel or Mediterranean style rockery, a centrepiece in a large courtyard garden, or planted in swathes along a sunny border adding gentle elegance to your planting schemes. Plant with other ornamental grasses, or with Dogwood to enjoy the coloured stems as a backdrop.
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For best results with Festuca Amethystina, plant them in full sun in fertile, moist, but well drained soil. Cut and comb out the last year’s flower stems and dead leaves in late winter or early spring. Divide congested plants in Spring.
As a rough guide when planting Festuca Amethystina grasses – 4 plants per square metre is adequate with a little patience, 6 will give better coverage, and 9-12 will make a weed supressing carpet very quickly.
How to grow Festuca Amethystina
Position: Full sun
Foliage: Evergreen
Soil and site: Best in moist, fertile, well drained soil
Flowering time: Summer to Autumn
Growth rate: Moderate/fast
Ultimate height and spread: Height to 50cm, spread to approximately 50cm
Hardiness: Hardy once established
Aftercare: Cut and comb out the last year’s flower stems and dead leaves in late Winter or early Spring. Divide overcrowded plants in Spring every few years.
