Foxtail (Coastal Swamp)

COMMON NAME: Coastal swamp foxtail

BOTANICAL NAME: Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Coastal’

HABIT: A warm season native, clumping grass. Has glossy green, narrow, strappy leaves. Produces a lovely feather like flower that is white with a slight purple hue through it.

HEIGHT: The coastal form rarely gets higher than 80cm.

WIDTH: Clumps out to about 30cm.

CLIMATE INFO: Holds its green colour through the warm season, and then straws off over winter before reshooting come spring. It does its best the longer the warm season is.

GARDEN USES: Great used on mass to create a grass landscape where the wind can catch the extending flower heads and move together in a mesmerising manner.

CULINARY USES: N/A

CONTAINER TYPE: 55mm Nursery Tube. (Tube diagonal width is 55mm, Tube height is 85mm).

CURRENT PLANT HEIGHT: Approximately 100mm to 150mm.

                       (Seasonal pruning and/or packaging may occasionally reduce height)

PROPAGATION TYPE: Division.