Desert Plains Fountain Grass

A fluffy explosion of texture! The Desert Plains Pennisetum (Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Desert Plains') is a hardy and graceful, Fountain Grass that makes a dazzling focal point in a sunny landscape! Desert Plains is a seedling of Cassian Fountain Grass but has an improved habit, better flowering performance, and richer fall color.

Desert Plains forms a stunning upright vase-shaped clump. This warm-season Fountain grasses' fine-textured leaves make a transition from green to deep red tips. Then Desert Plains bursts into bloom with its large, showy, 5-inch long, mauve-colored bottlebrush plumes in early fall! about 2 weeks later than Cassian. By then, the red-tipped blades transform into shades of orange and bronze in the fall.

Hardy throughout USDA growing zones 5 to 9 and grows into a rounded spiked mound 3-4 feet in height and width. Highly adaptable and xeric once established, Desert Plains lives up to its name with sheer adaptability!

Planting and Application:

Create fantastic accents and fountains of green and tan grassy plumes throughout the garden! Desert Plains adds lightness and a wonderfully contrasting fluffy spikiness to the landscape! Use this to your advantage for an eye-catching focal point or anchor to punctuate a garden bed! Accent a Rock Garden, or create a naturalized prairie planting by planting with other grasses and wildflowers! Or go modern with these grasses planted in strategically straight rows!

Plant as the thriller in a large planter or container for a fantastic specimen planting! Add some casters and enjoy wheeling your new shade or pinpoint privacy planting anywhere you need it in seating areas and on terraces, balconies, and even on either side of the entrance to your front porch steps in upscale urns, or dressed down in half whiskey barrels!

• Spiked Arching Green Foliage Features Red Tips
• Vase Shaped Slightly Cascading Plant
• 5-Inch Mauve Plumes in Autumn
• Bronze Foliage for Winter Interest
• Easy Care & Deer Resistant
• Specimens, En Masse & Groupings, Borders & Container Plants

#ProPlantTips for Care:

It is easy to grow and needs at least 6 hours of direct sun per day. Once this ornamental grass is established, it takes on the heat, humidity, and punishing sun effortlessly. It’s drought-resistant, easy to grow, and deer resistant. Prune in early spring to clean the mound before it gets growing. Have patience with warm-season grasses because they're slower to get started but grow vigorously once temperatures rise.

• Full Sun
• Grows in Well-Drained Drier Soil
• Average to Low Moisture Needs Once Established
• Prune Early Spring
• Very Low-Maintenance & Easy Care
• Warm-Season Grass

Fluffy and spiked contrast, the incredible and adaptable Desert Plains Fountain Grass will be your garden's newest favorite accent! Order easy-care plants and perennials and enjoy having them delivered to your doorstep by NatureHills.com!