festuca ornamental grass
Festuca ornamental grass is a favourite among New Zealand gardeners looking to add low-maintenance colour, texture, and movement to their landscapes. This hardy, versatile grass variety—often known simply as blue fescue—offers striking blue-green foliage, compact clumping habits, and the ability to thrive in a wide range of garden settings. Whether you’re designing borders, rock gardens, or container plantings, festuca ornamental grass delivers year-round visual interest and fits perfectly into both contemporary and traditional garden styles.
Festuca 'Banks Peninsula Blue' (Blue Fescue Grass)
Festuca 'Banks Peninsula Blue' is a striking ornamental grass valued for its fine, steel blue foliage that forms neat, compact clumps. This hardy plant is well suited to NZ conditions and provides year round colour and texture in the garden. Its tidy growth habit and drought tolerance make it ideal for modern landscapes, borders, and mass planting where a clean, architectural look is desired.
Isolepis cernua (Fiber-Optic Grass)
Isolepsis cernua (aka Scirpus cernua), commonly known as Fiber Optic Grass, grows as a tidy clump to about 25 cm tall and the same wide with green foliage and interesting silver flower heads. Isolepsis cernua is commonly planted alongside a pond or stream, planted around outdoor living areas, mass planted on a bank, or maintained in a container.
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