Cool As Ice Blue Fescue
Festuca glauca 'Cool As Ice'
$27.00
Gray-green emerging foliage quickly turns steel blue, and stays bright throughout the season; makes a fantastic color accent in the border, not a spreading grass; useful in dryer areas but try not to subject it to extremes
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Cool As Ice Blue Fescue is an herbaceous evergreen perennial grass with a mounded form. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.
Ornamental Qualities
Cool As Ice Blue Fescue is primarily valued in the garden for its interestingly mounded form. Its attractive grassy leaves emerge grayish green in spring | turning steel blue in color the rest of the year. The tan seed heads are carried on spikes from mid summer to late fall.
Planting and Growing
Cool As Ice Blue Fescue will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 18 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground | not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 8 years. As an evegreen perennial | this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.
This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to dry locations | and dislikes excessive moisture. It is considered to be drought-tolerant | and thus makes an ideal choice for a low-water garden or xeriscape application. 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 selected variety of a species not originally from North America. It can be propagated by division; however | as a cultivated variety | be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun to partial shade
Keep moisture level dry to average
Mature Size 15"Hx18"W
Zone 4a
Likes average to moist soil