Elijah Blue Fescue Garden Design
It can be used as an accent plant in mass plantings containers and crevices.
Elijah blue fescue garden design. It is best suited to full sun and well drained soils. Their flowers which extend upwards during the summer start out as a greenish blue before turning golden brown and dying back. At first the flowers are colored like the foliage before maturing.
The elijah blue grows as a small round dome of fine grassy leaves. Does equally well as a formal edging plant or in a mass for groundcover effect. Can be used as a ground cover or accent plant.
Most often planted near rock gardens around landscape boulders and in dry streambeds. See more ideas about blue fescue plants garden design. Blue fescue blooms though somewhat insignificantly in summer.
Its silver blue coloring and fine texture is appreciated in both asian gardens and the drought resistant landscape. Popular cultivars include elijah blue blausilber and siskiyou blue. With its clump forming habit blue fescue forms uniform balls of foliage topped with feathery straw bloom stalks in the summer.
Blue fescue is also very drought tolerant making it a great choice for rock gardens. Clumps has a tendency to die and require division every two to three years and are either replaced or replanted. The leaves are very fine and stick up in the air up to 8.
See this plant in the following landscape. Grown for blue green foliage. It can be used as a groundcover for small areas or to complement larger installations.