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Grasses
Purple Fountain Grass
Photo: Purple Fountain Grass, David MacTavish, Hutchinson Farm, Burlington, ON, July 20  2011
Grown at Hutchinson Farm since 2010. Available May 2020, in 6½" pots.

  • Description
    We grow a wide assortment of ornamental grasses, please see descriptions below
  • Garden Performance
    Grasses may be grown as a background or centrepiece in your garden, by themselves,or in combination with other plants. Most cultivars are not suited to small containers. Most will not survive our winters.
    Once established, grasses can be ignored, and are drought tolerant.


    Grass
    		 Description
    		 Height

    		 Pot
    Fireworks
    		 Annual, upright, sun to part sun.
    Beautiful red blades, slightly shorter than Purple Fountain grass.
    Sorry, not available 2020
    		 18 - 30"
    		 6"
    King Tut
    		 Annual, upright, sun to part sun.
    A tall thriller for your garden or large pots. Very impressive. Can tolerate wet feet.
    		 4-6 feet 6"
    Live Wire
    		 Annual, mounded, sun or shade
    		 6 -10"
    		 4.5"
    Prince Tut
    		 Smaller than King Tut, bigger than Baby Tut
    Sorry, not available 2020
    		 18 - 30"
    		 6"
    Purple Fountain Grass
    		 Annual, upright, sun to part sun.
    This favourite ornamental grass features waves of gracefully nodding soft purple plumes that arch up and out from burgundy-tinted foliage in true fountain grass form.
    		 24 - 36"
    		 6"
    Vertigo
    		 Annual, upright, sun to part sun.
    A very tall purple grass.

    		 30 - 60"
    		 6"