The feathery or oat-like flowerheads of stipas add texture and movement to sunny borders. Choose from delicate whispy grasses just 60cm (2ft) high to bold clumps with dramatic plumes standing over 2m (6½ft) tall.
These tall grasses make bold evergreen clumps, ideal as stand-alone specimens or mixed with other grasses, shrubs and large perennials. Their oat-like seedheads stand tall through summer, autumn and into winter, glowing golden in the sun.
These stipas work well in the middle or back of borders and in praire-style plantings. They bring movement to a garden, billowing and swaying in the breeze.
These deciduous stipas can be woven through borders, mingling with flowering perennials and other grasses, or grown in containers.
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