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Texture and Movement for Your Landscape

Ornamental grasses offer a beautiful combination of texture, color, and movement, making them a versatile addition to any garden or landscape design. These grasses bring year-round interest and sophistication, adding both structure and elegance to outdoor spaces. 🌾✨

Key Features:

  • Varied Textures and Colors: Ornamental grasses come in a wide range of textures, heights, and colors, including greens, blues, reds, and golds, allowing for creative landscape designs.
  • Seasonal Interest: Many ornamental grasses change color with the seasons, providing visual interest from spring through winter, often capped by pretty seed heads or plumes.
  • Low Maintenance: These grasses are hardy and drought-tolerant once established, requiring little care, making them ideal for eco-friendly, low-maintenance gardens.
  • Versatile Uses: Suitable for borders, backdrops, erosion control, and as standalone features, ornamental grasses complement various garden styles.
  • Wildlife Friendly: Grasses provide habitat for beneficial insects and wildlife, contributing to a balanced ecosystem.

Flame Grass

Fiery Color and Elegant Movement

Flame Grass, known for its vibrant color changes and graceful form, is a standout choice for adding dramatic flair to any landscape. This ornamental grass captivates with its fiery hues and delicate movement, bringing visual interest and texture throughout the seasons. 🌾🔥

Flame Grass begins with rich green foliage that transitions into stunning shades of red, orange, and gold as the seasons progress, resembling flickering flames. In the late summer to fall, tall, feathery plumes emerge, adding height and a soft, wispy texture to the garden.

Dwarf Fountain Grass

Compact Elegance with Graceful Plumes

Dwarf Fountain Grass is a popular choice for gardeners seeking to add a touch of elegance and texture to their landscapes with minimal space requirements. Known for its compact size and beautiful plumes, this ornamental grass enhances any setting with its refined look and easy-care nature. 🌾🌟

This ornamental grass forms neat, rounded clumps, making it perfect for small spaces, garden borders, and containers In late summer, Dwarf Fountain Grass produces soft, feathery plumes that arch elegantly above the foliage, adding movement and visual interest.

Blue Fescue

Striking Color and Compact Form

Blue Fescue is a charming ornamental grass known for its unique color and tidy growth habit. This popular perennial offers a subtle yet striking presence in gardens and landscapes with its distinctive blue-gray foliage and compact clumping form. 🌿💙

Blue Fescue’s blue-gray, needle-like foliage adds a cool and calming hue to garden designs, providing contrast to greener plants and vibrant flowers. Growing in small, mounded clumps, this grass maintains its shape and does not spread aggressively, making it perfect for borders, edging, and rock gardens.

While evergreen in milder climates, Blue Fescue retains its blue color and structure through the seasons, with charming cream-colored flower spikes emerging in late spring to early summer.

Zebra Grass

Bold Texture and Striking Vertical Interest

Zebra Grass is an eye-catching ornamental grass known for its unique striped foliage and graceful form. Perfect for adding vertical interest and dynamic texture to gardens, Zebra Grass is a standout choice that captivates with its distinctive pattern and elegance. 🌾✨

Zebra Grass features horizontal bands of yellow or white across its green blades, resembling zebra stripes, providing a bold and unusual appearance. This grass can reach impressive heights, making it ideal for use as a privacy screen, background plant, or dramatic focal point in the landscape.

Pink Muhly Grass

Ethereal Beauty and Soft Movement

Pink Muhly Grass is celebrated for its breathtaking clouds of pink plumes that create an ethereal, wispy effect in any landscape. This ornamental grass adds a unique blend of texture and color, making it a favorite for garden enthusiasts looking to make a statement.

In the late summer to fall, Pink Muhly Grass produces airy, cotton candy-like plumes that glow pink in the sun, painting your garden with a delicate, fairy-tale quality. Forming neat clumps, this grass maintains its shape and is perfect for softening the edges of borders, lining pathways, or creating a stunning mass planting.

Explore Our Ornamental Grass Selection

This is just a glimpse of the beautiful ornamental grasses we offer! 🌾✨ From the striking stripes of Zebra Grass to the enchanting pink plumes of Muhly Grass, our collection is designed to add texture, color, and interest to your landscape. We invite you to visit Riverside Nursery to explore our full range of ornamental grasses and find the perfect varieties for your garden. Our knowledgeable staff is here to assist you in selecting and designing with these versatile plants.

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