• Eventual height: 1.5m
  • Eventual spread: 1m

Panicum virgatum 'Prairie Sky'

switch grass

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This grass dies back to below ground level each year in autumn, then fresh new growth appears again in spring.

  • Position: full sun
  • Soil: moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil
  • Rate of Growth: average
  • Flowering period: August and September
  • Hardiness: fully hardy

    A great, back of border, architectural grass from the prairies of North America. Blue-green foliage topped with drooping, hazy, bluish-tinted flowers appear in early autumn and turns a blaze of orange-yellow as the season comes to an end. Leaving the seedheads on during winter will add interest as the delicate spikelets shiver and shimmer in the frosted breeze.

  • Garden care: Cut back in early spring when it starts to look tatty, and lift and divide congested clumps between mid-spring and summer.
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