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'Blue Whiskers' Blue Fescue Festuca glauca

Flower Season
  • Spring
  • Summer
Mature Size
12" 2'4" 30cm 71cm
Height: 10" - 12"
Spread: 2' - 2'4"
Height: 25cm - 30cm
Spread: 61cm - 71cm
Proven Selections
  • Details

    10 - 12 Inches
    24 - 28 Inches
    24 - 28 Inches
    25cm - 30cm
    61cm - 71cm
    61cm - 71cm

    Features

    Compared to classic variety ‘Elijah Blue’, ‘Blue Whiskers’ is a taller, more vigorous variety, with longer leaves and a brighter blue foliage color. The finely textured, bright silvery blue leaves form a fully rounded, robust clump with consistent flower coverage across the habit. Yellow-green flowers appear above the clump on 18-22” scapes in early summer and age to tan as the season progresses.

    Foliage Interest
    Salt Tolerant
    Resists: 
    Deer
    Grass: 
    Grass

    Characteristics

    Plant Type: 
    Perennial
    Height Category: 
    Short
    Garden Height: 
    10 - 12 Inches 25cm - 30cm
    Spacing: 
    24 - 28 Inches 61cm - 71cm
    Spread: 
    24 - 28 Inches 61cm - 71cm
    Flower Colors: 
    Tan
    Flower Shade: 
    Yellow green to tan
    Foliage Colors: 
    Blue
    Foliage Shade: 
    Silvery blue
    Habit: 
    Mounded
    Container Role: 
    Filler

    Plant Needs

    Light Requirement: 
    Part Sun to Sun

    The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

    Maintenance Category: 
    Easy
    Bloom Time: 
    Early Summer
    Bloom Time: 
    Mid Summer
    Hardiness Zones: 
    4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b
    Water Category: 
    Low
    Needs Good Drainage
    Soil Fertility Requirement: 
    Poor Soil
    Soil PH Category: 
    Neutral Soil
    Uses: 
    Border Plant
    Uses: 
    Container
    Maintenance Notes: 

    Festuca is a neutral grass. Evergreen or neutral grasses are usually plants that look like grasses but aren't actually classified as grasses, they are generally called grass-like plants.

    Divide evergreen or neutral grasses and grass-like plants in spring only.
    Evergreen grasses don't ever go dormant. Dividing plants wounds them to some degree. For evergreen grasses this wounding will really affect their ability to live through the winter.
    Plants should be divided every 2 to 3 years.

    'Blue Whiskers' Festuca glauca USPPAF
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