• Eventual Height: 0.6m
  • Eventual Spread: 0.3m
stipa ( syn. Stipa tenuifolia ) stipa ( syn. Stipa tenuifolia )
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Stipa tenuissima

stipa ( syn. Stipa tenuifolia )

Size: 2 litre pot   available within 2-3 days  
5 × 9cm pots   available within 2-3 weeks   £24.95

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  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: moderately fertile, medium to light, well-drained soil
  • Rate of growth: fast-growing
  • Flowering period: June to September
  • Flower colour: silver-green maturing to blonde-buff
  • Hardiness: fully hardy

    Wonderful, wispy, pale yellow-green leaves topped with fluffy plumes of silver-green flowers, maturing to blonde-buff. This versatile deciduous grass is ideal for a sunny gravel garden, large container or new perennial border. It's perfect for introducing movement into a planting scheme since the fluffy flower heads and foliage billow in the slightest breeze.

  • Garden care: Cut back in early spring before the new foliage appears.

  • Eventual Height: 0.6m
  • Eventual Spread: 0.3m
Stipa tenuissima - stipa ( syn. Stipa tenuifolia ) Lovely architectural Grass