Shearing your plant in late winter often contributes to extend its life and promotes a neater appearance. Great for rock gardens, edging borders or mass planting as a groundcover. Short-lived, Blue Fescue tends to die out in the center after 2-4 years. 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.This plant often looks best if the flowers are sheared off. The Beyond Blue Fescue is the best blue foliage grass weve seen to stand up to the heat of summer here with our hot, humid weather in middle Tennessee.A great candidate for borders, edging, in mass planting as a ground cover, rock gardens, cottage gardens, city gardens or containers.Provide good air circulation in humid areas. Part shade is appreciated in hot summer climates. Selected from a garden in the Netherlands, it goes by the name. Performs best in full sun in poor, moderately fertile, well-drained soils. Beyond Blue is a naturally occurring chimeric mutation of favorite Festuca glauca Elijah Blue.This selection forms a dense tuft of bluer-than-blue leaves that remain blue all season. Aside from its foliage interest, Blue Fescue tolerates cold, heat, humidity, low water, poor soils and is deer resistant. There are several selections of Blue Fescue, all of them valued for their clumping habit, and display of colourful, grassy foliage. Stunning when massed as a ground cover, Blue Fescue adds a superb color accent to the landscape all year around in mild winter areas. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a canvas of foliage against which the thriller plants stand out. At first, the flowers are colored like the foliage before maturing to light tan. Beyond Blue Blue Fescue is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. Densely tufted, the foliage of finely-textured, blade-like needles forms a neat mound topped by upright flower plumes in summer. It is an evergreen to semi-evergreen grass with a compact, dwarf habit that grows 3/4 to 1 ft. Whereas the Boulder Blue was hardier than the Elijah Blue, the Beyond Blue remains an even brighter blue over July and August when the Elijah Blue has long turned brown.
Unlike most Blue Fescues, Beyond Blue retains its blue color over the summer. The Beyond Blue Fescue is the best blue foliage grass we've seen to stand up to the heat of summer here with our hot, humid weather in middle Tennessee. Festuca glauca 'Beyond Blue' (Blue Fescue) is a compact, mound-forming, semi-evergreen ornamental grass mostly grown for its intense powder blue foliage that will catch your eye.
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