![]() ![]() He may have won the round, but not the fight. (That’s the deeper green grass planted behind the fescue in one of the pictures above.) I love that grass, not just because it is beautiful when in bloom:Īnd I love bulletproof plants. If it were up to me, I’d put the whole area into a five-foot high wave of miscanthus. I’ll be having the Blue Fescue argument for many years to come, I suspect, because there isn’t another low-growing, petite ornamental grass that is hardy here. Maybe ‘Elijah Blue’ just hates ‘Jennie With The Pool.’ I’d love to hear from others familiar with this plant. But everything should have made it through last winter. I’ve always considered my garden to straddle the line between zones 3 and 4. It’s frustrating because Blue Fescue - this is Elijah Blue blue fescue - is supposed to be hardy to zone 4a. Which is of course much different than it’s normal, more subdued state in our yard: Then it sends up its feathery seed heads and it takes on a completely different look of chartreuse green. This is it before it flowersĪll spikey and blue-grey. Use the Beyond Blue is borders, garden beds, containers, or as a groundcover. This plant will keep its strong color throughout the season without browning. I’m sure that if it weren’t the view I contemplated for minutes at a time everyday, it would not bug me nearly as much, but there you have it. A new introduction from the Southern Living Plant Collection, the Beyond Blue Festuca has unique powder blue foliage. It is what I look out at everyday when I’m sitting on the can and it drives me absolutely batty. That has never happened! And yet… this is how the Blue Fescue fared: I had plants alive after the snow melted this year. The following winter (this past winter) was one of the most gentle that we have ever had, due to the early, insulating layer of snow we had that lasted for the entire season. The … (I want you to know that Dave just walked by, looked over my shoulder, read the only sentence that he could see and said, “they don’t look like shit.” and we started the Blue Fescue argument all over again! He’s gone now, so I resume my diatribe.) The nursery guaranteed the plants and we replaced over half of them. …back and forth and back and forth it went. I just don’t like Blue Fescue, OK? Pick another plant.” Even if it makes it through winter, it looks like shit.” “OK, well, even if it says ‘hardy to zone 4,’ I’ve grown it and it doesn’t thrive here. He (and the landscaper) wanted to know what my grudge was against the cute little grass, all spikey and feathery, depending on the time of year. Having dabbled in ornamental grasses for several years, I was dead set against it. Two summers ago, when we did some new plantings around the house (after 13 years of living here), Dave was set on Blue Fescue in a large area back by the pool. ![]()
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