Has the largest, most handsome, bottle-brush-like flower heads, dark green, shadowed with black, softened with long, fine hairs. Forms much admired feature at mown grass edge of a sunny border, every hair caught in low sunlight, or gilded with hoar frost.
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Chinese fountain grass
Details
| Aspect | Full sun |
| Flower Colour | Pink | Red |
| Flowering Period | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
| Foliage | Evergreen |
| Goes Well With | Alchemilla, Persicaria, Rudbeckia |
| Growth Habit | Clump-forming |
| Hardiness | Fully hardy |
| Height | 90cm |
| Soil | Light, well-drained |
| Spread | 60cm |
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