Ornamental Grasses

Lovely blue-green foliage and best planted in groups to create a mass effect. Also excellent in pots.

A popular garden solution for edging paths or underplanting around trees. During spring and summer the foliage provides a perfect base to a profusion of violet-purple flowers held high on spikes.

Thick, round, smooth and curly foliage that is widely used in containers and mixed borders. Also often seen in flower arrangements.

A bright-green low-growing ornamental tuft-forming grass with light coloured plumes in summer, that is ideal for mass planting. Provides a soft texture contrast in the garden.

This elegant plant with tall bamboo-like stems and soft, feathery, needle-like leaves will enhance swimming pool areas and larger water features. A proudly South African restio.

A popular dark-green, clump forming ornamental grass that requires little care once established. It is a perfect groundcover and is commonly used to fill the gaps between stepping stones and pavers.

A dramatic ornamental grass with dark-purple to almost jet-black leaves. Small, bell-shaped, pale pinkish-white flowers emerge on dark stems in summer, before giving way to glossy dark-purple berries.

A delightful sedge that forms a low, cascading mound of reddish-brown leaves. Regarded as one of the most beautiful ornamental grasses for year-round appeal.

With its long, fine-textured leaves this ornamental grass forms an impressive upright tuft and creates a stylish display when contrasted with green sedges in a garden bed.

Ideal for mass planting, the attractive cream and green foliage of this plant looks almost silver from a distance and provides excellent colour contrast in the shaded garden.

Forms a weeping mound of fine textured bronze foliage. Lovely when spilling over slopes, pots and garden edges.

Dense upright tussocks and best planted in mass. A nice contrast plant especially when placed next to plants with round leaves.

One of the ‘go-to grasses’ because it pairs well with so many other plants and it grows in a small, neat clump that looks beautifully delicate when spilling over the front of a pot.

Ophiopogon jaburan ‘Vittatus’ has green and white variegated, ribbon-like leaves and produces flowers during the summer. An excellent long-lasting groundcover.

This interesting perennial plant has vibrant yellow stripes along the arching dark green foliage, with pretty purple flowers on short stalks that sit above the plant blooming in late summer.

A striking sedge with narrow variegated green and golden leaves. Provides a lovely contrast with other plants.

Lemon grass is a perennial plant with thin, long leaves that is indigenous to many Asian countries. Lemon grass contains citral, which is an essential oil, having medicinal and other useful significance.

One of the toughest, most reliable, low maintenance, versatile landscape plants. With its soft fine leaves that blossom in spring this is a great choice for borders, speciman or mass planting.