About

Festuca gigantea, the giant fescue, is a shade-tolerant, evergreen grass to 1 m tall with broad, flat, shiny foliage, purple nodes on the stems and green flowers on sparse, arching stems in mid- to late summer. A useful and ornamental grass for a moist, shaded or partly shaded border or woodland garden.

About the genus

Festuca, the fescues, are a large and varied genus of grasses, ranging from fine-leaved, compact mound-forming alpines to large, arching border grasses. Many have attractively coloured, often blue-green or silver-blue, fine-textured leaves and are grown as ornamental foliage plants in borders, rock gardens and containers.

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