![]() Shearing your plant in late winter often contributes to extend its life and promotes a neater appearance. Great to accent a rock garden, or for use en masse to edge a border or create a groundcover. Buff-colored plumes create eye-catching contrast in late summer. It is a charming, powder-blue grass that stays bright without browning This easy-care, semi-evergreen plant adds beauty, motion and energy to your garden. Beyond Blue Fescue Festuca glauca 'Casca11' PP 23,37 A dense mound of intense, colorfast, powder blue foliage that provides waterwise, heat and humidity tolerant texture. Short-lived, Blue Fescue tends to die out in the center after 2-4 years. Striking Beyond Blue Festuca (Festuca glauca 'Casca11' PP 23307) is a breeding breakthrough in Ornamental Grasses.This plant often looks best if the flowers are sheared off.Densely tufted, the foliage of finely-textured, blade-like needles forms a neat mound topped by upright flower plumes in summer. A great candidate for borders, edging, in mass planting as a ground cover, rock gardens, cottage gardens, city gardens or containers. 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. ![]() A cool season grass, this Blue Fescue is noted as the most tolerant of hot, humid summers. 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.This cool season grass forms a neat mound of vibrant blue foliage, 9 - 12 inch tall and 12 - 18 inches wide, with silvery grass flowers that fade to tan. Stunning when massed as a ground cover, Blue Fescue adds a superb color accent to the landscape all year around. A natural mutation of Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’, introduced by a Dutch nursery and said to offer the bluest of the blue colored blades. At first, the flowers are colored like the foliage before maturing to light tan. Whereas the Boulder Blue was hardier than the Elijah Blue, the Beyond Blue remains an even brighter blue over July and August when the Elijah Blue has long turned brown. The 'best' fescue on the market today Intense powder-blue leaves. The Beyond Blue Fescue is the best blue foliage grass we've seen to stand up to the heat of summer here with our hot, humid weather in middle Tennessee. Densely tufted, the foliage of finely-textured, blade-like needles forms a neat mound topped by upright flower plumes in summer. Intense powder-blue that holds it's color throughout the season. Selected from a garden in the Netherlands, it goes by the name Intense Blue in Europe. Beyond Blue is a naturally occurring chimeric mutation of favorite Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’. United States Plant Patent PP#23,307 awarded January 1, 2013.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. The ultra-steel-blue coloration of this cool-season beauty has people asking for it by name. It has slender, cascading foliage that is intensely silver-blue throughout the growing season. It is an evergreen to semi-evergreen grass with a compact, dwarf habit that grows 3/4 to 1 ft. 'Casca11', sold under the trade name of BEYOND BLUE, was discovered in 2002 by Annemarie Blom of Haarsteeg, The Netherlands as a naturally occurring mutation of Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'. Specific epithet means with a white, powdery coating. Genus name comes from the Latin word meaning a grass stalk or straw. Flowers give way to buffy seed heads which some gardeners find attractive but others find detractive to both the symmetry of the plant and the foliage color. Light green flowers with a purple tinge appear in terminal panicles atop stems rising above the foliage in late spring to early summer, but inflorescences are not very showy. Foliage forms a dome-shaped, porcupine-like tuft of erect to arching, needle-like blades radiating upward and outward to a height of 6-8" (inflorescences typically bring total clump height to 10-14"). Festuca glauca, commonly called blue fescue, is a short-lived, low-growing, semi-evergreen, clump-forming ornamental grass noted for its glaucous, finely-textured, blue-gray foliage.
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