United States Plant Patent PP#23,307 awarded January 1, 2013. Unlike most Blue Fescues, Beyond Blue retains its blue color over the summer. Beyond Blue is impressively tolerant of cold, heat, humidity, low water, deer, and poor soil conditions. In early summer, spikes of feathery tan flowers resembling wheat adorn the ornamental quill-like blades of grass. Festuca glauca 'Beyond Blue' (Blue Fescue) Festuca glauca 'Beyond Blue' (Blue Fescue) is a compact, mound-forming, semi-evergreen ornamental grass mostly grown for its intense powder blue foliage that will catch your eye. It has slender, cascading foliage that is intensely silver-blue throughout the growing season. Festuca glauca 'Beyond Blue' (Blue Fescue) is a compact, mound-forming, semi-evergreen ornamental grass mostly grown for its intense powder blue foliage that will catch your eye. Due to its dense, mounding habit, Festuca glauca Beyond Blue is ideal for mass planting, edging, or in rock gardens.
It is an evergreen to semi-evergreen grass with a compact, dwarf habit that grows 3/4 to 1 ft. 'Casca11', sold under the trade name of BEYOND BLUE, was discovered in 2002 by Annemarie Blom of Haarsteeg, The Netherlands as a naturally occurring mutation of Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'. Great for rock gardens, edging borders or mass planting as a groundcover. Specific epithet means with a white, powdery coating. Blue Fescue Grass with its icy blue coloration is a clumping ornamental grass, its eye catching color holds its own in the heat of summer. However, the Beyond Blue can survive in some partial shady spots, but the color will not be as vibrant. For a richer color, the Beyond Blue requires abundant sun. If you are planting this fescue in your landscape, it needs at least six hours of sunlight per day. Genus name comes from the Latin word meaning a grass stalk or straw. The Beyond Blue fescue can thrive in USDA hardiness zones 4 to 8. Flowers give way to buffy seed heads which some gardeners find attractive but others find detractive to both the symmetry of the plant and the foliage color. Light green flowers with a purple tinge appear in terminal panicles atop stems rising above the foliage in late spring to early summer, but inflorescences are not very showy. Foliage forms a dome-shaped, porcupine-like tuft of erect to arching, needle-like blades radiating upward and outward to a height of 6-8" (inflorescences typically bring total clump height to 10-14"). Once established, water occasionally more in extreme heat or containers.Festuca glauca, commonly called blue fescue, is a short-lived, low-growing, semi-evergreen, clump-forming ornamental grass noted for its glaucous, finely-textured, blue-gray foliage. It is a charming, powder-blue grass that stays bright without browning This easy-care, semi-evergreen plant adds beauty, motion and energy to your garden. Fine-textured leaf blades are vibrant blue-gray. Striking Beyond Blue Festuca (Festuca glauca 'Casca11' PP 23307) is a breeding breakthrough in Ornamental Grasses. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 8 years. The 'best' fescue on the market today Intense powder-blue leaves.
Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. Intense powder-blue that holds it's color throughout the season. Does equally well as a formal edging plant or in a mass for groundcover effect.īorder, Container, Firescaping/Firewise, Green Roof, Mass Planting, Rock Garden, Accent, Edging, Wildlife Garden, Urban Garden, Ground CoverĪsexual reproduction of plants protected by the Plant Patent Act is prohibited during the life of the patent.Ĭlump Forming, Dense Habit, Dramatic Foliage Color, Easy Care, Extreme Cold Hardiness, Tolerates Poor Soils, Waterwise, Fast Growing, Tolerates Urban Pollution cinerea Beyond Blue Common Blue Fescue An evergreen perennial grass that forms a dense, fountain-like clump. Beyond Blue Blue Fescue will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches.
Most often planted near rock gardens, around landscape boulders and in dry streambeds. Its silver-blue coloring and fine texture is appreciated in both Asian gardens and the drought-resistant landscape. wide.īlue Fescue is the best small ornamental grass.
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