Grasses > Silver Banner Grass
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Excellent specimen plants and look great in the herbaceous border. A creeping grass with grey-green foliage and sizable silvery flower spikes turning reddish and feathery in fall. They can also be used in waterside planting schemes.
Location: full sun.
Soil Type: any damp, good draining soil.
Growth Rate: average to fast.
Flowering Period: late summer - early fall.
Flower Colour: silvery/white turning red.
Plant Hardiness: frost hardy.
Plant Care: Cut back the withered stems to the ground in march. Divide in late spring by removing small sections from the rootball of the mature plant, without digging the complete plant up. (It resents disturbance to the roots)Goes well with: Dahlia 'Arabian Night', Veronicastrum virginicum f. album, Knautia macedonica, Eupatorium purpureum 'Atropurpureum', Allium sphaerocepthalon, Penstemon 'Burgundy' arundinacea var. picta 'Picta'