Panicum amarum Dewey Blue Multicolor Flowering Plants green leaves are deliciously fragrant

green leaves are deliciously fragrant

Persicaria polymorpha is native to high-elevation gravelly slopes in China and Japan but has made a superb garden plant for us in full sun

hailing from the foothills and disturbed lower slopes to 7

often starting for us in early- to mid-July

At this point the whole stalk has completed its life cycle and need to be cut to the ground

Panicum amarum Dewey Blue Multicolor Flowering Plants green leaves are deliciously fragrantThanks to Rick Darke, author of "The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses," we now have a selection of another great native deer resistant panicum. Panicum amarum is a soil stabilizing, clump forming beach grass that grows in dry sand between dunes from Connecticut to Louisiana. Rick selected Panicum 'Dewey Blue' for its graceful habit and lovely glaucous foliage. In late summer, the 4' tall clumps (shorter in dry sand) are topped by light airy