Short-lived, Blue Fescue tends to die out in the center after 2-4 years.This plant often looks best if the flowers are sheared off.A great candidate for borders, edging, in mass planting as a ground cover, rock gardens, cottage gardens, city gardens or containers.A cool season grass, this Blue Fescue is noted as the most tolerant of hot, humid summers.
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Native to southern France, it thrives in full sun, in poor, moderately fertile, well-drained soils, and typically grows in a compact mound up to 8-12 in. tall and wide (20-30 cm).Aside from its foliage interest, this Blue Fescue is drought tolerant, once established, and requires low maintenance and low watering.Stunning when massed as a ground cover, Blue Fescue adds a superb color accent to the landscape all year around. At first, the flowers are colored like the foliage before maturing to light tan. This selection forms a dense tuft of bluer-than-blue leaves that remain blue all season. Low maintenance and drought tolerant- prefers dry to medium soil. Forms a clump that remains blue all season. Densely tufted, the foliage of finely-textured, blade-like needles forms a neat mound topped by upright flower plumes in summer. There are several selections of Blue Fescue, all of them valued for their clumping habit, and display of colourful, grassy foliage. Beyond Blue Festuca, Festuca glauca 'Casca11', is a strikingly bright blue compact perennial grassy accent plant for edging or mass planting. One of the best and most colorful of all Blue Fescue varieties, Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' is a wonderful dwarf ornamental grass, mostly grown for its superb, evergreen, bright silver-blue foliage.
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