Unfortunately not hardy, so you must take seeds every year but what a beauty!

The dark colored leaves with a hinge of bronze and green in it, and the magnificent flower, almost black, with silver dots.

An elegantly waving grass that flowers silvery white in july and after that the leaves and the flowers turn to yellow and stay like that during the winter.

Beautifull red and green leaves and the flowers are beautiful red as well, so elegant, so fine.

Panicums have become very popular among ornamental grasses lovers in a very short time, maybe because of their subtle flowering and bushy growth.

Een van de vele Miscanthus soorten maar deze heeft echt hele mooie donkerrode bloeipluimen in augustus, in september-oktober verkleuren ze naar cremewit. Onmisbaar voor de najaarsborder, geeft dan nog vulling en structuur, het blad kleurt daarna nog mooi geel.

One of the many Miscanthus culivars. The plumes of this one are really beautifull dark red in august, after that they turn to silvery white in september- oktober.

A must for the autumn border because it still gives structure and filling at that time of year. The leaf turns to bright yellow.

Often people think this grass looks dead because of the brown color. But it is very alive, when it comes out of the ground in spring it is more a vivid orange and afterwards it turns to brown. In spring you must cut it down to the ground to make a healthy plant.

Very lovely with yellow leaved plants like the new Heuchera 'Amber Waves'.

Very elegant grass, a large green clump where the long stems emerge from with their hanging seeds.

Alas it is not very reliable in severe frosts and is not the easiest of the ornamental grasses.

Very very beautifull grass with its very dark, nearly black leaves. The flower heads combine with it very lovely because of their dark purple color.

But, again not very hardy in our climate. In fact we cannot say it is a hardy perennial.

But I like it so much that gladly make the effort to keep it indoors in winter and take it out again when all risk of frost is gone.

Lovely elegant grass. The leaves come in the colors orange, green, a bit of red, a bit of yellow, it sounds like a mish mash but in fact it looks very nice. And the flowers are superb, a cloud that covers the leaves completely as you can see.

Grass that went to the top of my list is no time because of its lovely plumes. It flowers late in the season, it only starts in september and because of that is a good addition for the autumn border.

Syn. Stipa brachytricha

Lovely grass but very difficult to photograph properly.

Long stems with very fine flowerheads emerge from a green clump.

You can easily see through it, that it is why it is called Transparent.

The leaves and stems turn to bright yellow in late autumn.

Very good for flower arrangers.