Description

Height: 3 feet

Spread: 12 inches

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Hardiness Zone: 5

Description:

Grown for its stiff upright blue-green foliage, this variety is well suited to garden beds and mixed containers; can be grown as a pond plant but is also quite drought tolerant when grown in the garden

Ornamental Features:

Blue Arrows Rush’s attractive grassy leaves emerge lime green in spring, turning bluish-green in color throughout the season. Neither the flowers nor the fruit are ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Blue Arrows Rush is a dense herbaceous ornamental grass with an upright spreading habit of growth. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance ornamental grass, and is best cut back to the ground in late winter before active growth resumes. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Blue Arrows Rush is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Container Planting
• Bog Gardens

Plant Characteristics:

Blue Arrows Rush will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 8 years.

This ornamental grass does best in full sun to partial shade. It is quite adaptable, prefering to grow in average to wet conditions, and will even tolerate some standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments.

This is a selection of a native North American species.