Beyond Blue combines well with other garden plants. Beautiful in borders, as garden plant and on the patio. Unlike most Blue Fescues, Beyond Blue retains its blue color over the summer. The unmistakable grass in your garden Beyond Blue is the most innovative and blue grass there is. United States Plant Patent PP#23,307 awarded January 1, 2013. Festuca glauca 'Beyond Blue' (Blue Fescue) is a compact, mound-forming, semi-evergreen ornamental grass mostly grown for its intense powder blue foliage that will catch your eye. It has slender, cascading foliage that is intensely silver-blue throughout the growing season. It is an evergreen to semi-evergreen grass with a compact, dwarf habit that grows 3/4 to 1 ft.
'Casca11', sold under the trade name of BEYOND BLUE, was discovered in 2002 by Annemarie Blom of Haarsteeg, The Netherlands as a naturally occurring mutation of Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'. Specific epithet means with a white, powdery coating. Genus name comes from the Latin word meaning a grass stalk or straw. Flowers give way to buffy seed heads which some gardeners find attractive but others find detractive to both the symmetry of the plant and the foliage color. Light green flowers with a purple tinge appear in terminal panicles atop stems rising above the foliage in late spring to early summer, but inflorescences are not very showy.
Foliage forms a dome-shaped, porcupine-like tuft of erect to arching, needle-like blades radiating upward and outward to a height of 6-8" (inflorescences typically bring total clump height to 10-14"). Shearing your plant in late winter often contributes to extend its life and promotes a neater appearance.Festuca glauca, commonly called blue fescue, is a short-lived, low-growing, semi-evergreen, clump-forming ornamental grass noted for its glaucous, finely-textured, blue-gray foliage. 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.A great candidate for borders, edging, in mass planting as a ground cover, rock gardens, cottage gardens, city gardens or containers.A cool season grass, this Blue Fescue is noted as the most tolerant of hot, humid summers. Selected from a garden in the Netherlands, it goes by the name Intense Blue in Europe. Beyond Blue is a naturally occurring chimeric mutation of favorite Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’. Beyond Blue is impressively tolerant of cold, heat, humidity, low water, deer, and poor soil conditions. The ultra-steel-blue coloration of this cool-season beauty has people asking for it by name. In early summer, spikes of feathery tan flowers resembling wheat adorn the ornamental quill-like blades of grass.
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At first, the flowers are colored like the foliage before maturing to light tan. A dense mound of intense, colorfast, powder blue foliage that provides waterwise, heat and humidity tolerant texture. Densely tufted, the foliage of finely-textured, blade-like needles forms a neat mound topped by upright flower plumes in summer. Uses: Front Border, Container, Mixed Border, Rock Garden. Very versatile for use in rock gardens, containers, borders and mass plantings. 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. Stunning powder-blue foliage all year long without browning out in summer like 'Elijah Blue' can.
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