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🌾💙 Blue Fescue Grass - Festuca glauca - 50 Seeds
🌾💙 Blue Fescue Grass - Festuca glauca - 50 Seeds
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Add elegance and texture to your garden with Blue Fescue Grass (Festuca glauca), a compact, hardy ornamental grass known for its striking blue-silver foliage. This clump-forming perennial brings color and structure to borders, rock gardens, or containers, offering year-round interest and low maintenance appeal.
Usage:
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Ideal for borders, edging, rock gardens, and containers
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Excellent for xeriscaping and drought-tolerant landscapes
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Provides contrast and texture in perennial beds
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Great for mass plantings and ground cover
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Deer resistant and low maintenance
Sowing Time:
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Sow indoors in early spring (6–8 weeks before last frost)
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Can also be directly sown outdoors after the danger of frost has passed
Germination Time:
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14–21 days
Sowing Depth:
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Lightly press seeds into the surface; do not cover heavily (requires light to germinate)
Soil Requirements:
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Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil
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Prefers neutral to slightly alkaline pH (6.5–7.5)
Sunlight Requirements:
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Full sun (minimum 6 hours per day)
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Can tolerate partial shade but color may fade
Watering:
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Drought-tolerant once established
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Water regularly until established, then occasional deep watering
Plant Height:
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Typically grows 20–30 cm (8–12 inches) tall
Spacing:
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Space plants 20–30 cm (8–12 inches) apart
Hardiness Zone:
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USDA Zones 4–9
Other Benefits:
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Attracts butterflies
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Non-invasive
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Evergreen in mild climates
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No serious pests or diseases
Latin Name: Festuca glauca
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