2024 Dayton Nursery Catalog

late summer through early fall, glossy purple pani- cles appear with fluffy tan seeds attached. Height: 3½-4½’, Spread: 2½-3½’ 031934 C1½ $16.99 Carousel A more compact version of our lovely native grass, with beautiful blue-green summer foliage which turns amazing shades of purple and bronze in fall. The delicate seedheads appear in August and September, and are especially showy when backlit by evening sunlight. Height: 2½’, Spread: 2½’ 033032 C1½ $10.99 Prairie Blues Prairie Blues is valued for its enduring blue-gray foliage, fall color, and low-maintenance properties. Height: 2-3’, Spread: 1-2’ 031637 C2 $16.99 Shining Star zones 4-10 Cream and green foliage blushes pink with cooler temps. Ideal erosion control for slopes or banks. The feathery inflorescences are held upright and foliage deepens with burgundy accents in fall. Height: 1-1½’, Spread: 2’ 035016 C1½ $16.99 scoparium Smoke Signal The glaucous blue-green foliage begins to take on scarlet red tones in late summer, turning a deeper red-purple through the fall. Tiny, tan seed heads appear in early fall on the top half of the stems. An improvement over older cultivars, this grass maintains its strictly upright habit through fall. Height: 3-4’, Spread: 1-2’ 035505 C1 $16.99 The Blues Features erect, upright, broom-like clumps of slen- der leaves which are tinted blue. Pinkish-tinged culms (stems) with silvery-white seed heads in winter. Foliage acquires burgundy-red tones in autumn. Height: 2-4’, Spread: 1½-2’ 029884 C1½ $12.99 Twilight Zone The foliage has an iridescent silvery mauve purple cast all over the whole plant beginning in midsum- mer with brighter purple highlights appearing on the flower stems in fall. Foliage is strictly upright, on a narrow clump. Height: 4-4½’, Spread: 2’ 035147 C1 $12.99 029883 C1½ $14.99 Sesleria Autumn Moor Grass j autumnalis zones 5-9 Silvery-white inflorescences emerge on narrow stems and hover high above the foliage. Clumping, cooling-season grass that starts the season quiet- ly. Height: 9-24”, Spread: 12-18”

Pennisetum Fountain Grass j e q 2 Zones 5-9 Cayenne Longest and later blooming toasted-brown bottle- brush plumes rise just above rich-green arching blades beginning in mid-summer. Height: 3½-4’, Spread: 4’ 035014 C1½ $14.99 alop . Desert Plains® PRAIRIE WINDS® This large fountain grass makes a beautiful focal point in the fall garden. Showy bottlebrush-shaped flowers emerge dusky purple and age to tan atop the upright vase- shaped clump of green foliage which takes on red, orange, and gold tones in fall. Height/Spread: 3-4’ 020794 PW2 $16.99 Etouffee One of the largest cultivars, it has long stems and a nice tan and pink bottlebrush flower. Because flowering starts later than most other fountain grass cultivars, the season of interest continues well into fall. Height: 3’, Spread: 3’ 035015 C1½ $14.99 Hameln Its foliage forms a neat, elegant fountain-like mound of narrow leaves that turns yellow in fall and looks good most of the winter. Flowers are ivory white. Height: 20”, Spread: 36” Lemon Squeeze One of the best for vigor with chartreuse gold leaves. Copper panicles appear above the foliage in midsummer and provide additional interest to this three seasons grass. Height: 2½-3’, Spread: 2- 2½’ 035306 PW2 $16.99 Little Bunny Smallest of the dwarf Fountain Grasses! Becomes yellow streaked in fall changing to brown by late fall. Will not bloom in shade. Fluffy, creamy tan colored plumes. Height: 6-12”, Spread: 6-12” Puppy Love Graceful, arching habit has medium to dark green foliage with burgundy accents. The darker red inflorescences begin to show color in late summer and continues until frost. Height: 3’, Spread: 3’ 028513 C1 $10.99 Red Head It begins to show its huge, bottlebrush plumes in mid to late summer. Deep purple buds mature to smoky purple plumes that can measure a whop- ping 3" wide by 8-10" long! Height/ Spread: 4-5’ 035038 C1½ $14.99 Schizachyrium Little Bluestem j e 2 = & Zones 3-9, unless otherwise noted. Blaze Grows in an upright shape and sports blue green foliage in summer. In fall, fiery colors appear— strong reds, purples, and hints of orange and pink. Height: 2-3’, Spread: 1-2’ 031636 C2 $16.99 Blue Heaven A taller, more upright habit that does not tend to flop like the species. In the summer, the foliage color is a brighter steel blue color with purple high- lights, looking almost iridescent up close. From 019815 C1½ $11.99 005761 C2 $16.99 001459 C1 $10.99 012278 C1½ $11.99

‘Hameln’

‘Lemon Squeeze’

031635 C1½ $11.99 031635 C2 $16.99 Sporobolus Prairie Dropseed

heterolepsis zones 3-9

Fine-textured, hair-like, medium green leaves form an arching foliage mound. Foliage turns golden with orange hues in fall. Open, branching flower panicles appear on stems that rise well above the foliage in late summer. Height: 2-3’, Spread: 2-3’ 029885 C1½ $12.99

‘Little Bunny’

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