![]() ![]() Shearing your plant in late winter often contributes to extend its life and promotes a neater appearance. Short-lived, Blue Fescue tends to die out in the center after 2-4 years.This plant often looks best if the flowers are sheared off.Forms a clump that remains blue all season. Beyond Blue Festuca Care Plant in well-drained soil. Beyond Blue Festuca, Festuca glauca Casca11, is a strikingly bright blue compact perennial grassy accent plant for edging or mass planting. Flowers appear in late spring and summer. Low maintenance and drought tolerant- prefers dry to medium soil. A great candidate for borders, edging, in mass planting as a ground cover, rock gardens, cottage gardens, city gardens or containers. Beyond Blue Festuca, Festuca glauca 'Casca11', is a strikingly bright blue compact perennial grassy accent plant for edging or mass planting.Season: Spring (Early,Mid,Late) Summer (Early,Mid. ![]() Festuca glauca Beyond Blue (Blue Fescue) Add to Collection. ![]() It is recommended for USDA climate zones 4 to 9. Compare all Festuca - Fescues and find the right plant for your garden and pots based on your hardiness zone, sun exposure, water requirements and more. A cool season grass, this Blue Fescue is noted as the most tolerant of hot, humid summers. Festuca glauca Casca11 will be 10 to 12 inches tall, with a spread of 16 to 18 inches. Native to southern France, it thrives in full sun, in poor, moderately fertile, well-drained soils, and typically grows in a compact mound up to 8-12 in. tall and wide (20-30 cm).Aside from its foliage interest, this Blue Fescue is drought tolerant, once established, and requires low maintenance and low watering.Stunning when massed as a ground cover, Blue Fescue adds a superb color accent to the landscape all year around. At first, the flowers are colored like the foliage before maturing to light tan. Densely tufted, the foliage of finely-textured, blade-like needles forms a neat mound topped by upright flower plumes in summer. One of the best and most colorful of all Blue Fescue varieties, Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' is a wonderful dwarf ornamental grass, mostly grown for its superb, evergreen, bright silver-blue foliage. ![]()
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