One of the easiest and most rewarding plants you can grow in the sun-soaked garden, this spendid pink-flowered Giant Fountain Grass is a joy from midsummer right through fall, sporting masses of swaying, shimmying plumes AND eye-catching golden fall foliage!The show begins in midsummer, when dozens of 5- to 8-inch-long, silvery-pink flowerheads arise all over the plant. Shaped like bottlebrushes and very lightweight, they dance and shiver with every passing breeze, their silvery highlights catching the strong summer sun beautifully. An impressive sight, they continue to bloom for many weeks, and are eventually joined by fall foliage of soft golden-yellow. Wow!
If you think of Giant Fountain Grass as being, well, giant, look at the more manageable dimensions of this beauty. Just 4 to 5 feet high and 3 feet wide at maturity, this is a grass that will provide a privacy fence, focal point, or foundation standout, but won't take over the garden or look out of proportion with your summer- and fall-blooming perennials and small shrubs. It makes a fine backdrop to Daylilies, Russian Sage, and other sun-lovers, and is absolutely a joy in the low-maintenance garden, being tolerant of cold, heat, humidity, poor soil, and even drought! Just give it well-drained soil and plenty of sun, and this grass will do the rest!
Space plants about 3 feet apart in the garden. Zones 5-9.
