A very pretty, delicate-looking native Irish grass also known as Féar Gortach. Growing to 50cm, it has distinctive, graceful flowerheads with short triangular spikelets on slender stalks from May to July. These are green, often tinged purple, maturing to a straw-colour. The leaves grow in tufts of flat grey-green leaves. It makes a great cutflower. Its common name Quaking Grass refers to the delicate flowers quaking in the wind.
This grass likes to grow in a well-drained soil in full sun.
A very pretty, delicate-looking native Irish grass also known as Féar Gortach. Growing to 50cm, it has distinctive, graceful flowerheads with short triangular spikelets on slender stalks from May to July. These are green, often tinged purple, maturing to a straw-colour. The leaves grow in tufts of flat grey-green leaves. It makes a great cutflower. Its common name Quaking Grass refers to the delicate flowers quaking in the wind.
This grass likes to grow in a well-drained soil in full sun.