Uruguayan Pampas Grass"Rose & Silver" (duo mix)

Uruguayan Pampas Grass"Rose & Silver" (duo mix) - Cortaderia selloana.
An exceptionally ornamental, perennial, evergreen herb.
Under good growing conditions, it reaches a height of 2-3 m, monumentally rises above the rest of the plants in the garden. The leaves are mostly basal, linear, wide, gray-green.
Very beautiful, thanks to large silky panicles, consisting of small spikelets, which makes the inflorescences appear silvery-white or pinkish.
Inflorescences are not afraid of either cold or snow, decorating the garden from the end to the beginning of the season.
Used in group plantings, you can decorate the lawn, the edge, an open terrace, the shore of the reservoir. Inflorescences are widely used for cutting, as well as fresh or dried.
Agricultural technology.
Requires well-cultivated and relatively fertile soils, thermophilic, drought-resistant, needs bright lighting. Seeds are sown in early spring. In areas with a cool climate, you need to cover for the winter.
It quickly grows into entire plantations. Be sure to remove old yellowed leaves annually, as they clog the center of the curtain. It is better not to touch the beautiful flower stalks of pampas grass at the beginning of the growing season.

Origin: Brazil, Argentina, Chile.
Perennial plant, reaching 300 cm in height, forming dense, large bushes.
The leaves are mostly basal, linear, wide, gray-green, drawn off at the end, finely serrated along the edge.
The flowers are small, with fused scales, leathery, collected in 4-7 flower spikelets.
Female spikelets are pubescent with long silky hairs, which makes the inflorescences appear silvery-white or pinkish. Male spikelets are naked.
Blooms from August to October, very beautiful, thanks to large silky panicles, consisting of small spikelets.
Reproduction: by seeds, which are recommended to be sown in spring.
Use: in single and group plantings, in winter bouquets.

Eng.: Uruguayan Pampas Grass. Suom.: Pampaheinä. Sven.: Pampasgräs.