When planted in a checkerboard pattern, you can give your landscape some added style. If you want to create a visually stunning landscape, make sure to fill those bare areas with the Beyond Blue. Festuca glauca 'Casca11' BEYOND BLUE Back to Previous Page More Images Common Name: blue fescue Type: Ornamental grass Family: Poaceae Zone: 4 to 9 Height: 0.75 to 1.00 feet Spread: 1.00 to 1.
This fescue grass is an ideal option for a groundcover application. It has slender, cascading foliage that is intensely silver-blue throughout the growing season. The Beyond Blue maintains its color and shape all year. It is an evergreen to semi-evergreen grass with a compact, dwarf habit that grows 3/4 to 1 ft. Use the Beyond Blue is borders, garden beds, containers, or as a groundcover. This plant will keep its strong color throughout the season without browning. 'Casca11', sold under the trade name of BEYOND BLUE, was discovered in 2002 by Annemarie Blom of Haarsteeg, The Netherlands as a naturally occurring mutation of Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'. A new introduction from the Southern Living Plant Collection, the Beyond Blue Festuca has unique powder blue foliage. This cultivar was named Beyond Blue as it. Specific epithet means with a white, powdery coating. Commonly called blue fescue, this low-growing clumping grass has glaucous, finely textured, blue-gray foliage. Genus name comes from the Latin word meaning a grass stalk or straw. Blue Fescue Grass with its icy blue coloration is a clumping ornamental grass, its eye catching color holds its own in the heat of summer. Flowers give way to buffy seed heads which some gardeners find attractive but others find detractive to both the symmetry of the plant and the foliage color. This low-maintenance gem will thrive despite heat, humidity or poor soils. Light green flowers with a purple tinge appear in terminal panicles atop stems rising above the foliage in late spring to early summer, but inflorescences are not very showy. Festuca glauca: Common Name: Blue fescue, blue fescue grass: Family: Poaceae: Plant Type: Perennial, grass: Mature Size: 6-12 in. Beyond Blue is a striking plant as a mass planting in the landscape or as a specimen in mixed containers. Its compact growth habit makes it ideal for containers or adding some color to the border of a flower bed. It forms a dense mound of intense blue foliage that is tolerant of drought, heat and humidity. Foliage forms a dome-shaped, porcupine-like tuft of erect to arching, needle-like blades radiating upward and outward to a height of 6-8" (inflorescences typically bring total clump height to 10-14"). Beyond Blue Fescue is an ornamental grass that provides a tuff addition to your yard. Festuca glauca, commonly called blue fescue, is a short-lived, low-growing, semi-evergreen, clump-forming ornamental grass noted for its glaucous, finely-textured, blue-gray foliage.
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