With its stiff, arching yet compact foliage and conveniently tidy growing habit, the Blue Fescue is an ornamental grass that won't leave you feeling blue! When grown in the sun its evergreen foliage is a beautiful silvery-blue colour, while its spiky, midsummer flowers have a green tint. Festuca glauca plants are easy to grow, forming neat clumps which rarely need maintaining. This grass looks great in rockeries and gravel gardens and the hardy perennial can also be grown alongside complementary Mediterranean-style plants in borders and containers.
Whilst most garden plants are drab and flowerless during the winter months, this attractive shrub flowers from December until April, making it a great backdrop to early spring bulbs such as crocus and daffodils.
The steely-blue foliage of Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' adds form and texture to the border all year round. This attractive grass grows in dense tufts, and when planted en masse it creates an impression of softness. A useful architectural plant, this Fescue is at home in a dry, sunny spot and will do well mixed with herbaceous perennials, bedding plants or in rockeries or gravel gardens. It is robust and easy to grow. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 25cm (10).
This hard working shrub bears a profusion of flowers in winter and spring, just when the garden is at it dullest. Fragrant pale yellow, pea-like blooms stand out against a backdrop of blue-green foliage that remains evergreen. With a compact, rounded habit Coronilla glauca 'Citrina' is ideal for gardens of any size, adding a splash of valuable winter colour to sunny borders. Coronilla is particularly useful in coastal areas where it will happily tolerate exposed conditions. This hardy shrub also makes a superb wall shrub. Height and spread: 100cm (39).
This beautiful ornamental grass will provide your garden with all year round colour and interest;with its attractive silver/blue foliage. In summer short spikes of blue-green flowers appear;gradually fading to yellow-brown. It is compact in nature making it ideal for edging garden borders and a real stand out feature in patio pots.
A compact and elegant shrub to grace any garden, Coronilla is a feast for the senses with evergreen, bluish leaves and bright orange-yellow clusters of deliciously-scented flowers. Easy to grow, Coronilla is a hard-working plant, flowering through winter and spring and adding a much needed 'pick-me-up' to your garden just when it needs it most. With a compact, rounded habit, Coronilla glauca is absolutely ideal for gardens of any size and well-suited to growing in a large container in a conservatory or on a sheltered patio where you can make the most of its glorious, scented flowers. Commonly known as 'Bastard Senna' or 'Scorpion Vetch', Coronilla get its Latin name from the crown-like shape formed by its perfect, velvety flower clusters, and is more than happy growing against a warm, sunny wall or in a sheltered border where it makes an elegant shrub, tumbling over other flowers. Forming a neat plant around 80cm in height and width, your Coronilla will be supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot.