Where is the best place to plant purple fountain grass?
Planting: Plant your Purple Fountain in an area with full sun (about 6 hours of sunlight daily) and well-drained soil. Once you’ve chosen your location, dig a hole that’s large enough to accommodate your plant’s root ball, place your plant, backfill the soil and water to settle the roots. Purple Fountain Grass Care Give them plenty of room in the garden with at least 3 feet between plants since mature plants can reach about 5 feet tall and nearly as wide. Plant in a hole both deep and wide enough to accommodate the roots. Water thoroughly after planting and thereafter at least twice a week.I love purple fountain grass, and I’m glad to have extra plants this year. The repotted divisions have lots of room to grow and it will be much easier to get water to their roots. We have another purple fountain grass in a similar glazed pot that also needs to be divided. But that’s a job for another day.Add a bright splash of purple that lasts through fall in your landscape by combining annual purple fountain grass with cleome. We chose varieties that grow to similar heights here and interplanted them to form a tapestry of fluffy foxtail plumes and rounded flower clusters.Purple Fountain Grass Care Give them plenty of room in the garden with at least 3 feet between plants since mature plants can reach about 5 feet tall and nearly as wide. Plant in a hole both deep and wide enough to accommodate the roots. Water thoroughly after planting and thereafter at least twice a week.
Are purple fountain grass annuals?
Purple fountain grass is a perennial in Zones 9 and 10, but is frequently grown as an annual in cold-winter Zones. Grow purple fountain grass in a sunny spot with well-drained soil. It grows best when it gets about an inch of water a week (either from rain or the water hose). Perennial fountain grass varieties will come back in the following growing season if they are hardy in your zone. Annual types will die each year in colder zones and need to be replanted for the new season.As long as the grass has had a haircut before the next season, that’s all it needs to not get in the way of new growth. You do need to prune fountain grass before it begins to actively start growing again in mid-to-late spring. Leaving it beyond this point would be a pruning mistake.Perennial fountain grass varieties will come back in the following growing season if they are hardy in your zone. Annual types will die each year in colder zones and need to be replanted for the new season.
Is purple fountain grass hardy?
Purple Fountain Grass Grass Purple Fountain is winter hardy to USDA Zones 9-10 where it is easily grown as a perennial in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Best performance is in full sun. Red or purple fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’) is hardy in zones 8 to 11 so it will not survive Wisconsin winters. Some gardeners have had success digging and potting up the plants to overwinter indoors. Keep the plants in a cool, not freezing, dark location with slightly moist soil.
What pairs well with purple fountain grass?
Purple Fountain Grass and Sun believeable Sunflower These flowers can produce thousands of blooms every season, from first bloom to first frost. They are beautiful paired with the soft purple look of Purple Fountain Grass which is drought tolerant and easy to grow. Fountain grass is easily grown in most soils and does best in full sun, although it does tolerate part shade (but will not flower well). Although it prefers fairly dry soils and is drought tolerant once established, it also grows in moist, but well-drained soils.