Silver Grass

Miscanthus sinensis Kleine Fontane

• Position: full sun
• Soil: fertile, moist, well drained or sandy
• Rate of Growth: average
• Flowering period: August and September
• Hardiness: fully hardy
  
  A stunning,fountainous grass for a mixed or herbaceous border, this has narrow, silvery leaves with a white stripe down the centre. It flowers profusely and keeps on flowering right into autumn, when its new, reddish-brown, tassel-like flowers are a pretty foil for the faded, silvery older ones. Use it to add height to a perennial border, and to give winter presence.
  
  
• Garden care: Protect from excessive winter wet. Cut down to the ground in later winter, before new foliage appears.