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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:

  • Ideal for borders, edging, rock gardens, and containers

  • Excellent for xeriscaping and drought-tolerant landscapes

  • Provides contrast and texture in perennial beds

  • Great for mass plantings and ground cover

  • Deer resistant and low maintenance

Sowing Time:

  • Sow indoors in early spring (6–8 weeks before last frost)

  • Can also be directly sown outdoors after the danger of frost has passed

Germination Time:

  • 14–21 days

Sowing Depth:

  • Lightly press seeds into the surface; do not cover heavily (requires light to germinate)

Soil Requirements:

  • Well-drained, sandy or loamy soil

  • Prefers neutral to slightly alkaline pH (6.5–7.5)

Sunlight Requirements:

  • Full sun (minimum 6 hours per day)

  • Can tolerate partial shade but color may fade

Watering:

  • Drought-tolerant once established

  • Water regularly until established, then occasional deep watering

Plant Height:

  • Typically grows 20–30 cm (8–12 inches) tall

Spacing:

  • Space plants 20–30 cm (8–12 inches) apart

Hardiness Zone:

  • USDA Zones 4–9

Other Benefits:

  • Attracts butterflies

  • Non-invasive

  • Evergreen in mild climates

  • No serious pests or diseases

Latin Name: Festuca glauca

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