Fescue

Fescue Grass
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Fescue Grass (Festuca) - Annual and perennial grasses, containing few species for the garden.

Fescue
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(fs´ky), any of some 100 species of introduced Old World grasses of the genus Festuca.

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 ...

Tall Fescue
Prepared by Bob Polomski, Extension Consumer Horticulturist, and Debbie Shaughnessy, HGIC Information Specialist, Clemson University. (New 03/99.)
HGIC 1210 ...

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.

Sheep Fescue, Blue Fescue, Green Fescue
Scientific Name: Festuca ovina L.
Synonym:
Family: Poaceae ...

Common blue fescue (Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue')
Named for one of Cher's sons? A modern mystery.
NextTurkeyfoot (Andropogon gerardii) ...

Additional note: Fescue can accumulate nitrates under conditions of overfertilization (see the section on oats for more information on nitrate toxicosis).

Atlas fescue is at its best in groups and grows in all but hot, humid, and low desert climates.
Care: Provide full sun to light shade. It is tolerant of most any soil, but does not like extreme heat, cold, or humidity.

Festuca glauca is a well-behaved grass as long as you attend to deadheading. Otherwise, if you do not, be prepared to contend with many baby fescue seedlings.

Atlas Fescue - Evergreen clumping grass to 18-24" tall & wide w/pale gray-green lvs & early summer flwrs panicles. Sun or light shade. Occasional H2O. Hardy to -30F.
Frankenia thymifolia
Sea Heath - Low growing subshrub ...

Red Fescue ( Festuca rubra )
Red Fig Tomato ( Lycopersicon esculentum )
Red Fir ( Abies magnifica ) ...

dune fescue, fescue grass, sand fescue, silver grass, silvergrass, vulpia
Family
Gramineae (South Australia)Poaceae (Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory) ...

Blue fescue (Festuca glauca)
Sheep fescue (Festuca ovina ovina)
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacia)
Related Topics ...

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
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Blue Oat Grass ...

For example, Fescue grass produces its most productive grow (roots and tops) in the fall, so September and October are the best months to aerate fescue lawns.

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.

Turf-type Tall Fescue
Xeriscaping
Proper Lawn Mowing
Proper lawn mowing involves the interaction of the height and frequency of mowing.
Mowers And Mowing: Don't Bag It - The Lawn Maintenance Plan ...

Various-leaved Fescue, Various-leaved Pondweed, Velvet Bent, Venus's Looking Glass, Vervain, Vine, Violet Helleborine, Viper's Bugloss, Viper's Grass, Viviparous Fescue ...

annual fescue; foxtail fescue; red-tail fescue Vulpia myuros
apple of Peru Nicandra physalodes
apple, crabapple Malus sylvestris
apple-mint Mentha x villosa
aquatic soda apple Solanum tampicense
arabian coffee Coffea arabica ...

Violet Fescue [English]: Festuca violacea
Violet Fleabane [English]: Erigeron pappochromus
Violet Four O'clock [English]: Mirabilis violacea
Violet Glow Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Violet Glow' ...

Fescue
Blue Festuca cinerea
Filbert
European Filbert, Hazelnut Corylus avellana
Contorted Filbert, Harry Lauder's Walking Stick Corylus avellana ‘Contorta'
Fir
Balsam Abies balsamea
Dwarf Balsam Abies balsamea‘Nana' ...

Bearskin Fescue (Festuca scoparia)
Beaucarnea stricta
Beauty Bush (Kolkwitzia amabilis 'Pink Cloud')
Beauty Bush (Kolkwitzia amabilis)
Bedding Begonia (Begonia semperflorens 'Olympia Mix')
Bedding Begonia (Begonia semperflorens 'Gin') ...

brevior, Fescue Sedge
brunnescens, Brown Sedge
canescens, Silvery Sedge
crawfordii, Crawford's Sedge
crinita, Fringed Sedge
cryptolepis, Northeastern Sedge
deflexa, Northern Sedge
deweyana, Dewey Sedge
disperma, Soft Leaf Sedge ...

Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue': One of the bluest of fescues, 'Elijah Blue' forms a spiky dome. Trim back every few years in March to get rid of dead leaves. Height: 40cm (16in).

Festuca californica (California Fescue)
Festuca idahoensis
Muhlenbergia rigens (Deer Grass)
Deschamsia cespitosa (Tufted Hair-grass)
Calamagrostis foliosa (Coastal or Leafy Reedgrass)
Panicum virgatum
Melica imperfecta
Agrostis nebulosa ...

Example: Blue fescue (Festuca cinerea). MOUNDED Somewhat weeping; mounding foliage. Top growth covers lower leaves. Example: Black-flowering pennisetum (Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Moudry'). UPRIGHT Erect.

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 ...

In a slightly smaller space try 'Siskiyou Blue' fescue (Festuca idahoensis 'Siskiyou Blue'), a newer introduction (45 cm x 30 cm, s f; average, well-drained soil, Zone 4, or lower with proper protection).

For example, in the northern United States, lawn seed mixes for shady areas will require more grasses called fescues, which like shade, and less Kentucky Bluegrass, the sun-loving grass of the North.

It interferes with the healthy development of other plants causing wilting and yellowing of the foliage. This has caused some to believe that nothing grows under a Black Walnut, but there are many varieties of plants that can. Fescue grass is a type ...

Tall Fescue
Tobacco and Tree Tobacco
Tung Oil Tree
Various Poppies including Opium Poppy
Water Hemlock or Cowbane
White and Yellow Sweetclover
White Snakeroot
Wild Cherries, Black Cherry, Bitter Cherry, Choke Cherry, Pin Cherry
Wisteria ...

See also: Grass, Green, Grasses, Festuca, May