Ornamental Grasses

Spiky Garden Texture

Ornamental grasses have become popular and important landscape additions to the perennial garden over the past decade and rightly so. As a textural garden element, ornamental grasses offer relief from big heavy globs of foundation shrubs, and their interest spans the seasons. We also include in this group any perennial plants that have grassy foliage, or are similar in texture and use in the garden, without technically being ornamental grasses. Most ornamental grasses thrive in full sun, but the grass look-alikes such as carex and acorus prefer shade. Use ornamental grasses to contrast heavier textured plants. Each will enhance the other.

Ornamental grasses range from tall plants such as Saccharum arundinaceum and Miscanthus giganteus to medium-size plants such as many panicum species, to shorter plants such as carex (sedge) and chasmanthium (northern sea oats). When you're ready to buy ornamental grasses for your garden, check out the list below. We have a large and ever-changing list of wonderful ornamental grasses for sale.