Ornamental Grass Briza maxima has blue green leaves and flower heads that hang like scaly little heart shaped lockets that are tinged with pink from late spring to mid summer. They make a wonderful cut flower and flowering in 10 to 12 weeks from spring sowing, they are very easy to grow to perfection.

Briza media has graceful, pendant, large quaking seed heads which erupt over the foliage in summer. They gradually take on golden shades as summer progresses and become almost animated when touched by a summer breeze.

The rich, rusty copper-bronze, fine leaved foliage of Carex Red Rooster is very popular with designers. With an upright arching form, the tips of the thin linear leaves curl as they mature and flex gracefully in the breeze, giving colour, texture and movement in the perennial garden.

The fountainous habit of Carex "Bronze Curls” adds a nice weeping look to mixed containers, and its bold colour contrasts beautifully with nearby green-leaved plants. With pink tints through spring and golden-amber till frost, when the new foliage emerges in spring it is as coppery-bright as a new penny!

Amazon Mist is a graceful ornamental grass with arching silver white evergreen foliage, each ending with a slight curl. The flowing mounds of fine textured are lovely spilling over slopes and walls. It adds colour and texture to both summer and autumn displays.

As a young plant the copper fine-textured leaves of Carex flagellifera “Auburn” are tufted and erect in growth, as it matures the leaves arch over to the ground and are are very attractive and at their most effective when planted close together. Hardy, low maintenance and evergreen in mild climates.

Carex Prairie Fire is an outstanding specimen plant. In spring the attractive green bronze, fine leaved foliage erupts into colour like burning embers. In late summer, panicles of rosy flowers appear just above the foliage

This unusual pink form of pampas grass with tall, pink-flushed, feathery plumes is a real show stopper. In midsummer spectacular plumes erupt above the foliage. The show continues into winter as the feathery plumes persist and the foliage turns golden brown when touched by frost.

Cortaderia selloana “White Feather” - Pampas Grasses are the ultimate architectural plant, adding texture, autumn colour and winter shapes in the landscape. Relatively easy to grow, this plant flowers throughout late summer and autumn. It will provide colour and interest for many years.

Cyperus alternifolius is a very popular both as a house plant and pond plant. The bracts are symmetrically arranged in an umbrella formation and held atop elegant stems that sway with the breeze, giving a tropical touch to the garden. They are also excellent when used in fresh or dried floral arrangements.

Festuca amethystina has the most striking combination of silvery-blue, tufted blades of foliage, with drooping, dark violet-tinged flower stems that will rise above the foliage in the first year if sown early enough. It is a gem for containers or a rock garden.

Diminutive Festuca glauca makes a tight mound of steely blue, needle-like blades and is one of the most tactile of the evergreen grasses. Planted as a specimen or in swathes across a garden, the colour is so unexpected it can't help but catch the eye.

Squirrel-Tail Grasses are the ultimate architectural plant, adding see-through effects, autumn colour and winter shapes. They carry silky, golden-greyish panicles in early and mid summer, which develop a reddish or purple tinge at the tips. Fantastic in massed groups, or around taller, more stately plants. .