Blue Fescue
Festuca glauca 'Compact Blue'
Blue Fescue
Festuca glauca 'Compact Blue'
Festuca glauca 'Compact Blue'
11cm
£0.00
Festuca glauca 'Compact Blue' is a superb little blue fescue, grown for its dense, rounded cushions of fine, steely silver-blue foliage. Evergreen and neat all year, it brings a cool, metallic shimmer to the garden that contrasts beautifully with greens, purples and hot colours alike. As one of the most useful compact ornamental grasses, it's a designer's favourite for edging, repetition and crisp structure.
Its tidy, mounded habit makes festuca glauca ideal for the front of a sunny border, for gravel and rock gardens, for lining a path, or for pots and window boxes. Plant it in groups or drifts for the strongest effect, where the silvery-blue tufts read as a continuous wave of colour.
How and where to grow it
Give it full sun and sharp drainage, the more sun it gets, the bluer the foliage. It thrives in poor, dry, sandy soils and dislikes winter wet, so avoid heavy, soggy ground. Fully hardy and evergreen, it needs very little attention: comb out or trim over tired foliage in spring, and lift and divide the clumps every two or three years to keep the colour vivid.
- Position: full sun for the best blue colour
- Soil: free-draining; perfect for gravel and dry gardens
- Care: evergreen and low-maintenance; divide every few years
Each plant is nursery-grown and hand-selected, arriving healthy and ready to add year-round colour and form to your planting.
