Koeleria
Hair grass
- Height × spread
- 0.15m – 0.15m × 0.15m – 0.15m
- Position
- Full sun
Availability
Please ask in store about availability
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About this plant
Only a few of the hair grasses are grown as garden ornamentals. They are gentle looking grasses with upright growth habits and send up their short, fluffy topped flower spikes in early summer. These come in foliage shades of blue and green. These ornamental forms stand around 60cm in height and need to be positioned where their growth habit stands apart. They look good in groups.
- Flower colour
- Brown, Pink
- Foliage colour
- Blue, Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Fan
- Height
- 0.15m – 0.15m
- Spread
- 0.15m – 0.15m
- Season of interest
- Spring, Summer
- Evergreen
- Evergreen
- Garden style
- Small scale garden, Prairie garden, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Winter hardiness
- Varies, most are hardy
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Ground cover, Bird attraction
- Hazards
- No
AutumnNow
Autumn - mid · Planting
Deadhead to tidy for winter
Tidy the plant to make the garden ready for winter. When the flowering season concludes around mid-autumn, cut off the flowered stems to their base.
Spring
Spring - early-mid · Planting
Divide when too large
The plant can be divided if it becomes too large or another plant is required. This may involve physically dividing the clump in two, removing offsets or small bulbs or dividing rhizomes. The new plants can be grown in pots or planted in the ground.