Ornamental Grasses

Ornamental Grasses are one of the most versatile plants for any landscape. Sophisticated and dramatic or informal and understated, they bring great richness of texture, variety, and beauty to enhance and define other plantings.
Easy-to-grow grasses add interest to a landscape in every season. Grass plants constantly change throughout the year. Each season offers new eye-catching features: from spring's new green growth, to summer seed heads and rich autumn foliage tones, to the architecture of its winter forms. Ornamental grasses are an essential part of all landscape styles.
Grasses attract wildlife like songbirds and turkeys, and many are host plants for butterflies. No pesticides or fertilizers are needed to grow these lovely plants!
Green Gate Farms grows a FINISHED product, not plugs or starter plants so your grasses will be in trade gallon pots.
We are neonic-free!
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Andropogon gerardii 'Blackhawks'Common Name: Big Bluestem
Andropogon ‘Blackhawks’ features upright foliage starts out dark green but begins to turn red-purple in August as nights cool and is nearly black by late September. Plants grow 4-5 foot tall. Big bluestem grass... [ More Info ]
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Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition'Common Name: Blue Grama Grass
Bouteloua gracilis 'Blonde Ambition' commonly called blue grama or mosquito grass, is a tufted, warm season grass noted for its distinctive arrangement of mosquito larvae-like seed spikes which hang from only one side of its flowerin... [ More Info ]
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Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster'Common Name: Feather Reed Grass
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' or Feather Reed Grass has a strict upright habit with golden wheat-like plumes that appear in spring until fall. At first, they are feathery and pinkish-purple in color, then as the weather gets warmer, t... [ More Info ]
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Carex flacca 'Blue Zinger'Common Name: Blue Sedge
Carex flacca ‘Blue Zinger’ features attractive blue-green grass-like foliage. It typically grows in clumps to 10-20” tall. Insignificant greenish-white grass-like flowers appear in summer. It is grown in t... [ More Info ]
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Carex oshimensis 'Evergold'Common Name: Sedge
Carex oshimensis ‘Evergold’ is an ornamental sedge that becomes an arching, low tufted mound in the landscape. Each graceful thin blade is dark green with a wide, bright butter-yellow central stripe. This cheerful perennial requir... [ More Info ]
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Carex oshimensis 'Everillo'Common Name: Sedge
Carex ‘Everillo’ is a bright and compact cultivar. Lovely cascading foliage is uniformly chartruese yellow. Grown for colorful container and landscape use, primarily in shaded exposures. This plant heralds from Irela... [ More Info ]
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Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'Common Name: Blue Fescue
Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue' is a Blue Fescue grass that is deep sea blue in color. 'Elijah Blue' is a low-growing, semi-evergreen ornamental grass noted for its finely-textured, silver-blue foliage. Foliage forms a dome-shaped, porcupine-like tuft o...
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Miscanthus sinensis 'Fire Dragon'Common Name: Maiden Grass
Miscanthus sinensis 'Fire Dragon' is exceptionally showy in the fall with shades of fiery orange-to-red leaves. Feathery, silver plumes add to the display. 'Fire Dragon' grows very upright with stiff stems that won't flop over. Use to add height a... [ More Info ]
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Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus'Common Name: Maiden Grass
Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus', known as maiden grass, is noted for its narrow green leaves with a silver midrib which form a substantial, rounded, arching clump of foliage typically growing 4-6' tall (to 8' when in flower). Foliage turns yello... [ More Info ]
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Miscanthus sinsensis 'Little Miss'Common Name: Maiden Grass
Small and colorful, Miscanthus sinensis 'Little Miss' will brighten up any landscape. It features a neat, compact habit with glossy, arching foliage less than 3 feet tall. The blades emerge green and turn carmine to purple in late spring thr... [ More Info ]
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Panicum virgatum 'Hot Rod'Common Name: Switch Grass
Panicum virgatum 'Hot Rod' revs up into the red zone earlier than other switch grasses. 'Hot Rod' kicks panicums up a notch with firmly upright blades that emerge blue/green, reddening rapidly until the whole plant is a rich, deep maroon. Though t... [ More Info ]
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Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln'Common Name: Dwarf Fountain Grass
Dwarf Fountain Grass offers arching, deep green foliage in a compact growth habit. One of the most versatile of all ornamental grasses, it is also one of the most popular Pennisetum cultivars. The 'Hameln' variety has leaves that are deep green in... [ More Info ]
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Schizachyrium scopariumCommon Name: Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium, or Little Bluestem, is one of the dominant grasses which grow in the rich and fertile soils of the tallgrass prairie. Forms upright clumps of slender green leaves with a tinge of blue at the base which deepens almost into ... [ More Info ]
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Sporobolus heterolepisCommon Name: Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis, or Prairie Dropseed, is a Missouri native and prefers well-drained, rocky sites. Fine-textured, medium green leaves typically form an arching mound. Foliage turns golden with orange hues in fall, fading to light bronze in wint...
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