Festuca Glauca Beyond Blue

Beyond Blue™ Blue Fescue

Festuca glauca 'Casca11'

Height: 15 inches

Spread: 18 inches

Sunlight: full sun partial shade

Hardiness Zone: 4a

Other Names: Festuca ovina var. glauca

Description:

Intense powder blue foliage that stays bright throughout the season; makes a fantastic color accent in the border, not a spreading grass; useful in dryer areas but try not to subject it to extremes

Ornamental Features

Beyond Blue™ Blue Fescue is primarily valued in the garden for its interestingly mounded form. Its attractive grassy leaves remain steel blue in colour throughout the year. The tan seed heads are carried on spikes from mid summer to late fall.

Landscape Attributes

Beyond Blue™ Blue Fescue is an herbaceous evergreen perennial grass with a mounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and is best cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active growth for the season. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Beyond Blue™ Blue Fescue is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Rock/Alpine Gardens
Border Edging
General Garden Use
Naturalizing And Woodland Gardens
Container Planting