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I am in zone 5b with heavy clay soil. The oat grass is doing well and is maintaining it's shape and color. It has shown no signs of being...Read More
This evergreen blue-foliaged grass is very beautiful where it does well. Around Boston, I see more plants performing poorly than performi...Read More
It is a reliable and handsome ornamental grass with soft, very blue foliage. I find it better than the smaller Blue Fescue grass that som...Read More
I've grown this plant for years. I've tried a couple of methods to maintain it including cutting it back in late winter each year or rak...Read More
Prickersnall, there are photos of Blue Oat Grass on the right side of the page. If you click on "click here to see all photos" you will s...Read More
I hope I can post a question...2 in fact:
What does the seedhead look like, and is any nutritional helpful in promoting......Read More
Will not tolerate clay even when kept dry.
To the Mtngardener in Colorado, Helictotrichon sempervirens (blue oat grass) is strictly clump-forming. That means it does not grow by u...Read More
I've had the plant about 8 years now, and it still looks lovely. We live in zone 4 and have an annual rainfall of 11" so like drought to...Read More
I have tried to grow this plant several times (Iowa) with no luck. It lives for about two months gradually deteriorating until it finall...Read More
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the blue oat grass that I see looks fresh and blue when newly planted, and then ages very poorly, very qui...Read More
Blue oat grass in 5b is a beautiful grass, but be warned it is HIGHLY invasive in good growing conditions.Would recommend planting in a l...Read More
In addition to the previous comments blue oats grass does nicely in combination with blue fescue and other ornamental grasses and is a bi...Read More
I have only good things to say about this grass.
Beautiful blue-green foliage.
Nice, neat mound.
Keeps its good look...Read More
I have to agree that this is probably the best blue grass around for ornament apart from the equally superb Koeleria glauca.
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Divides very easily. Tolerates part shade very well. Did not tolerate being flooded one year very well, but a snippet lived on to be divi...Read More