Blue fescue
Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'
Genus: Festuca
Species: glauca
Cultivar: 'Elijah Blue' ...
Blue fescue (Festuca ovina var. glauca) is a cool season, clump-forming perennial grass that grows about 10 inches tall and wide. The fine-textured leaves are thin and wiry and blue-gray in color.
Blue Fescue
Clumping deep sea blue foliage. The most heat tolerant or 'summer hardy'Fescue by leaps and bounds. Named by the late Lois Woodhall of the Plantage. Neat evergreen mounds with wheat inflorescences. Stunning!
Native to Europe ...
Common blue fescue (Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue')
Named for one of Cher's sons? A modern mystery.
NextTurkeyfoot (Andropogon gerardii) ...
Sheep Fescue, Blue Fescue, Green Fescue
Scientific Name: Festuca ovina L.
Synonym:
Family: Poaceae ...
Azure Blue Fescue - Evergreen grass to 12" tall with golden buff flowers in summer. Full sun. Drought tolerant. Very hardy.
Phlomis cashmeriana ...
Blue fescue (Festuca glauca)
Sheep fescue (Festuca ovina ovina)
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacia)
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Blue Fescue is a durable plant that grows in clumping mounds of fine blue foliage that tend to die out in the center after a couple years and will need to be divided
4-9
Blue Oat Grass ...
Large Blue Fescue ( Festuca amethystina )
Large Cherry Capsicum ( Capsicum annuum )
Large Copper Tulip ( Tulipa ) ...
Blue fescue usually is grown as a border or edging plant. Its fine texture and neat, compact shape make it well suited to line a path or mark the front of a perennial border.
Festuca glauca
BLUE FESCUE
Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola'
GOLDEN VARIEGATED HAKONE GRASS ...
Blue Glow Blue Fescue [English]: Festuca glauca 'Blauglut'
Blue Goose Leaf [English]: Acaena saccaticupula 'Blue Haze'
Blue Goose Leaf [English]: Acaena saccaticupula
Blue Goose Southern Pea [English]: Vigna unguiculata ...
Festuca cinerea [Blue Fescue] Common Name List
(plant images and info)
Filipendula vulgaris [Dropwort Meadowsweet] Common Name List
(plant images and info)
Gaillardia × grandiflora [Blanket Flower] Common Name List
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Blue Fescue, Festuca glauca, is known for its attractive blue foliage and compact mounds.
Feather Reed Grass, Calamagrostis acutiflora 'Karl Foerster', grows to be a large, upright clump, 4 to 5 feet high by 2 to 3 feet wide.
Example: Blue fescue (Festuca cinerea). MOUNDED Somewhat weeping; mounding foliage. Top growth covers lower leaves. Example: Black-flowering pennisetum (Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Moudry'). UPRIGHT Erect.
Blue Fescue (Festuca ovina glauca)
Blue Flame (Myrtillocactus cochal)
Blue Flax (Linum perenne)
Blue Flax (Linum perenne lewisii)
Blue Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis sylvatica 'Royal Blue')
Blue Globe Onion (Allium caeruleum)
Blue Gum (Eucalyptus globulus) ...
Festuca ovina Blue Fescue
Gaillardia species Blanket Flower
Gaura lindheimeri Gaura
Helianthus species Perennial Sunflower
Hemerocallis species and hybridsDaylily
Hesperaloe parviflora False Red Yucca
Iris hybrids Bearded Iris ...
Regarded by some as the bluest blue fescue, this plant forms compact, cascading mounds of foot-tall, intensely blue, narrow leaves that are attractive in all seasons.
Festuca glauca (Blue Fescue)
Foeniculum vulgaris (Fennel)
Fritillaria sp. (Fritillaria)
Galanthus sp. (Snowdrop)
Gaura lindheimeri (Gaura)
Grevillea sp. (Grevillea)
Helianthus angustifolius (Swamp Sunflower)
Helleborus sp. and hybrids (Lenten Rose) ...
Test Garden Tip: Clump-forming grasses, such as feather reedgrass or blue fescue, are best choices for vegetable gardens. Avoid running grasses such as ribbongrass that can become weedy if they spread too much.
Cover Your Ground ...
Festuca ovina glauca 'Sea Urchin' Grass, Blue Fescue 'Sea Urchin'
perennial, easy care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 4a thru 9b ...
 See also: Fescue, Green, Grass, Festuca, Grasses
  
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