Description
The bright rose-red coloured inflorescence
Extremely drought tolerant grass. The bright rose-red coloured inflorescence glows when backlit. One of the most attractive late flowering ornamental grasses, need a warm summer to flower. Best in poor soil.
Flowering: Summer
Hardiness: Hardy
Height: 50cm
Spread: 30cm
Further information:
This plant has a lovely colour range in Autumn when the days start to get colder. Leave the leaves on. Take away old leaves in Spring.
Common Name: Purple Love Grass / Spectacular Love Grass
Life Cycle: perennial
Family: Poaceae
Foliage: Linear / lanceolate
Basic Colour: ( red )
Flower Colour: red / pink
Natural Flowering: June-August
Winter Hardiness: Fully Hardy
Height with Flowers: 50cm
Soil Requirements: average / dry / well-drained / sandy
Soil ph: acidic / alkaline / neutral
Location: Sunny border / Mediterranean / Meadow
Usage: ornamental
Pruning: Cut back in early spring and mulch with old foliage
Tolerates: drought tolerant / salt tolerant
Origin: USA
Jo B. (verified owner) –
Always happy with the quality of the plants.
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Linda Twist (verified owner) –
Arrived very well packaged and looking healthy. Looking forward to seeing the plants next year in my prairie border. Will definitely use D’Arcy and Everest again.
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Marianne (verified owner) –
looks very healthy, looking forward to seeing this in full colour next year
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Janet (verified owner) –
Good healthy plants arrived well packed and on time.
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Colin K. (verified owner) –
New growth coming strongly. No problems.
Anonymous (verified owner) –
Prompt delivery and items arrived well packaged. Really looking forward to seeing them grow.
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Joy P. (verified owner) –
Have yet to plant it out but looking healthy
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Anonymous (verified owner) –
Seems healthy & very well packaged
Janet Jeffries (verified owner) –
Out of Stock so cannot comment
Wendy P. (verified owner) –
Prompt delivery and well packed. Arrived fresh and apparently healthy.
Joan (verified owner) –
Great
Clifford GODFREY (verified owner) –
Service second to none.
Michael Charvonia (verified owner) –
Too early to comment
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Kathy (verified owner) –
Looking a little sad, as it is dormant at the moment, but on further inspection has a very good root system and looking forward to seeing new growth soon. Thank you for the very good service and good quality plants
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