![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shearing your plant in late winter often contributes to extend its life and promotes a neater appearance. Short-lived, Blue Fescue tends to die out in the center after 2-4 years.It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 8 years. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. This plant often looks best if the flowers are sheared off. Beyond Blue Fescue will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches.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. Performs best in full sun in poor, moderately fertile, well-drained soils.Aside from its foliage interest, Blue Fescue tolerates cold, heat, humidity, low water, poor soils and is deer resistant. Beyond Blue Blue Fescue will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches. Stunning when massed as a ground cover, Blue Fescue adds a superb color accent to the landscape all year around in mild winter areas. At first, the flowers are colored like the foliage before maturing to light tan. ![]() It has slender, cascading foliage. Festuca glauca Beyond Blue PP23307 - 50 per flat. This low-maintenance gem will thrive despite heat, humidity or poor soils. Beyond Blue is a striking plant as a mass planting in the landscape or as a specimen in mixed 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. Flowers fade to light brown by late summer and can be cut back if preferred. Unlike most Blue Fescues, Beyond Blue retains its blue color over the summer. United States Plant Patent PP#23,307 awarded January 1, 2013.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. It has slender, cascading foliage that is intensely silver-blue throughout the growing season. It is an evergreen to semi-evergreen grass with a compact, dwarf habit that grows 3/4 to 1 ft. 'Casca11', sold under the trade name of BEYOND BLUE, was discovered in 2002 by Annemarie Blom of Haarsteeg, The Netherlands as a naturally occurring mutation of Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'. Specific epithet means with a white, powdery coating. Genus name comes from the Latin word meaning a grass stalk or straw. Flowers give way to buffy seed heads which some gardeners find attractive but others find detractive to both the symmetry of the plant and the foliage color. Light green flowers with a purple tinge appear in terminal panicles atop stems rising above the foliage in late spring to early summer, but inflorescences are not very showy. Foliage forms a dome-shaped, porcupine-like tuft of erect to arching, needle-like blades radiating upward and outward to a height of 6-8" (inflorescences typically bring total clump height to 10-14"). Festuca glauca, commonly called blue fescue, is a short-lived, low-growing, semi-evergreen, clump-forming ornamental grass noted for its glaucous, finely-textured, blue-gray foliage. ![]()
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