This combines really well with Kanutia macedonica and Stipa tenuissima. The young growth looks like chives or baby leeks, providing great vertical accents even before the flower heads appear. When they do, they start to blush purple from the top down, eventually turning in to beautiful deep magenta drumsticks that look great with other perennials….
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I first grew this beautiful plant from seed in 2010. Iit flowered prolifically from late Spring until the first frosts, and was a favoruite for the hoverflies. It looks particularly good with Stipa tenuissima and Allium sphaerocephelon.
A wonderfully structural plant as it forms a quite tight vase-like shape with gracefully cascading narrow strap-like leaves. The flowers are held rather more stiffly than on Miscanthus sinensis ‘China’, so it holds its shape very well, even under snow, but is perhaps a little less “pretty”. Planted at the back of the pond border….
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A wonderfully structural grass, with deep red flower plumes from August. The seedheads carry on looking good through the winter, particularly with low autumn light shining through or covered in frost. Two specimens in pond bed. Very graceful arching leaves in a neat upright shape.