Field Grown Ornamental Grasses, Dried Floral Arrangements, Nursery & Flower Farm

Ornamental Grass Nursery

	Grassland Gardens grows over 50 varieties of ornamental grasses. The majority are grown in our fields. Our grasses are perennial with the exception of a couple of annuals that our customers request. We are able to directly observe how each ornamental grass variety thrives under our growing conditions. Observations and records have been kept since 1998. New varieties are added each year.

Grassland Gardens' ornamental grasses are available in the spring throughout the month of May including our Spring Open House. The best time to determine which grasses will look best in your landscape is at our Annual Fall Field Days in September and throughout the rest of the fall. At this time, ornamental grass are at their peak, or approaching their peak growth. Observe their height, texture, color, shape, and visual appeal. Choices are made and ornamental grass orders are placed to be picked up in the spring. Extra pots of grass are available in the spring although not all varieties.


A line of perennials is also available in the spring. Perennial offerings focus on drought tolerant, butterfly & hummingbird attracting types, and those that look especially well with ornamental grasses. Most of our perennials have been tested for our local growing conditions through their inclusion in our display gardens.

Ornamental Grass Offerings
The following information is available in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. The documents should open in your browser window when you click on one of the following links if you have Adobe Acrobat installed. If you do not have a copy of Adobe Acrobat, you may download and install a copy from here. Click on one of the following links (in blue) to see more information about that particular grass.

Bluestems Big Bluestem – Andropogon gerardi ‘Pawnee’ Little Bluestem – Schizachyrium ‘Prairie Blues’ ‘The Blues’ Dropseed Giant Sacaton Grass – Sporobolus wrightii Big, Giant Sacaton Grass Prairie Dropseed – Sporobolus heterolepis Prairie Dropseed Feather Reed Grass – Calamagrostis ‘Avalanche’ ‘Brachytricha’ ‘Eldorado’ ‘Karl Foerster’ ‘Overdam’ Fescue – Festuca glauca (Blue Fescue Grass) ‘Elijah Blue’ Fountain Grass – Pennisetum ‘Cassian’ ‘Desert Plains’ ‘Foxtrot’ ‘Hameln’ ‘Karley Rose’ ‘Little Bunny’ ‘Red Head’ ‘Rubrum’ - Annual viridescens Indian Grass – Sorghastrum nutans ‘variety’ ‘Sioux Blue’ ‘Indian Steel’ Japanese Silver Grass – Miscanthus sinensis ‘variety’ ‘Adagio’ ‘Arabesque’ ‘Autumn Light’ ‘Bluetenwunder’ ‘Cabaret’ ‘Cosmopolitan’ ‘Gracillimus’ – Maiden Grass ‘Graziella’ ‘Huron Sentinel’ ‘Little Kitten’ ‘Little Zebra’ ‘Malepartus’ ‘Morning Light’ – Variegated Maiden Grass ‘Nippon’ ‘Positano’ ‘Puenktchen’ – Little Dot ‘Purpurascens’ – Flame Grass ‘Rigoletto’ ‘Rotsilber’ ‘Silberfeder’ ‘Stardust’ ‘Strictus’ – Porcupine Grass ‘Super Stripe’ ‘Undine’ ‘Variegatus’ ‘Zebrinus’ – Zebra Grass Quaking Grass – Briza media Quaking Grass Sea Oats – Chasmanthium latifolium Northern Sea Oats Switch Grass – Panicum virgatum ‘variety’ ‘Cloud Nine’ ‘Dallas Blues’ ‘Heavy Metal’ ‘Huron Solstice’ ‘North Wind’ ‘Prairie Sky’ ‘Rotstrahlbusch’ ‘Shenandoah’ ‘Thundercloud’

Ornamental Grass Offerings