Pennisetum
Fountain Grass
The soft inflorescences take their name from the Latin words penna and seta meaning feather-bristle. This alluring grass is a favorite, distinguished by arching, feathery bottlebrush flowers spilling over a cascading mound of foliage. A warm season grower, Fountain Grass welcomes hot weather and is widely distributed in both tropical and temperate areas.
If you are looking for a perfectly sized Pennisetum that’s loaded with fleecy blooms and doesn’t require much care, this new cultivar may be your answer. Though ‘Piglet’ is small-statured, about half the size of Pennisetum ‘Hameln’, it’s certainly not the runt of the litter, growing taller and more substantial than ‘Little Bunny’. Easy to tuck into a tight, well-drained space amid Aster asperulus and Astrantia ‘Buckland’, the long-lived, fine textured green foliage supports a light-as-air profusion of cylindrical tawny-colored blooms. (pp#19,074)
Blooms August–October
Size: 18" high x 18" – 2' 0" wide.
Zone 5/6.
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Other selections in this genus:
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Foxtrot’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Cassian’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Ginger Love’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hameln’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Moudry’
- Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Red Head’
- Pennisetum ‘Fairy Tails’
- Pennisetum massaicum ‘Red Buttons’
- Pennisetum orientale
- Pennisetum orientale ‘Karley Rose’
- Pennisetum orientale ‘Tall Tails’
- Pennisetum slopeduroides ‘JS Jommenik’
- Pennisetum spathiolatum
