Blue Fescue
Festuca 'Intense Blue'
Blue Fescue
Festuca 'Intense Blue'
Festuca 'Intense Blue'
17cm
£0.00
Festuca glauca 'Intense Blue' is a standout selection of blue fescue, chosen for the depth and intensity of its colour, a vivid, almost electric silver-blue that holds remarkably well through the year. Forming neat, evergreen hummocks of fine, needle-like foliage, it's one of the most striking compact ornamental grasses you can grow.
Like all festuca glauca, 'Intense Blue' is brilliant for adding cool colour and crisp, mounded form to sunny borders, gravel gardens, rockeries and containers. Use it in repeated groups for a rhythmic, contemporary look, or let it spill over the edge of a pot or raised bed.
How and where to grow it
Plant in full sun and free-draining soil for the most intense colour and the healthiest growth. It loves poor, dry, sandy or gravelly conditions and resents sitting wet over winter. It's fully hardy and evergreen, asking only that you comb out tired foliage in spring and divide the clumps every few years to refresh the blue.
- Position: full sun brings out the strongest blue
- Soil: sharp-draining; ideal for dry and gravel gardens
- Care: trim or comb in spring; divide periodically
Every plant is nursery-grown and carefully selected, ready to bring a jolt of cool, year-round colour to your garden.
