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Easy to care for and teeming with design opportunities, fountain grass, also known as Pennisetum, is a hardy, beautiful plant for both beginner gardeners and seasoned green thumbs looking to liven ...
The ornamental grass with fuzzy foxtail flowers comes in a range of sizes.
This week's Plant Pick of the Week is an annual ornamental grass with multi-colored blades called fountain grass 'Fireworks.' ...
Fountain grass’s bright-green foliage is crowned with flowers that have a bottle-brush appearance. In summer through fall, the bristly flowers form pink, red, black or white plumes.
Red Head fountain grass starts to plume in midsummer. The bottlebrush-type plumes are 6 to 8 inches long and smoky black and pink. The fluffy plumes grow on stiff stems that hold them above the ...
Fireworks is a relatively new, highly variegated version of purple fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum Rubrum). Purple fountain grass has been grown here successfully for years, and Fireworks does ...
It's Wildfire Awareness Week. Fountain grass is an invasive plant that is commonly seen on roadsides and in neighborhoods in Tucson, and poses a big risk when it comes to wildfires.
In the Garden Q: Dig and store it or leave it in the garden, I can’t seem to keep purple fountain grass alive through the winter. What is the best way to overwinter this grass? A: With ...
The LSU AgCenter has announced another Louisiana Super Plant called Fireworks, a red-foliaged variety of purple fountain grass or pennisetum.
The little bunny fountain grass (Pennisetum alopecuroides “Little Bunny”) is a miniature ornamental grass with white, bushy plumes that, on windy days, resemble tiny bunnies leaping into the air.
Pennisetum, an ornamental grass widely known as purple fountain grass, has added a new member to its group and one that has a different color. While it is still considered one of the purple ...