feather grass

Balancing our composition, the flowering stems of giant feather grass introduce airiness and movement to the summer garden.

Giant feather grass is not fussy about soil and, once established, doesn’t require any supplemental water during summer dry months.

Roomy garden placement, say at 11 and 3, ensures that the two specimen performers, the manzanita and the giant feather grass, won’t upstage one another.

Over the last two decades in Paris, the winter temperatures have risen, allowing him to cultivate, say, Mexican feather grass sooner than he could have in the past.

Nassella tenuissima, or Mexican feather grass, grows low, finely tufted green ponytails that flower into fluffy flaxen strands of 2 feet.