Plants in Motion

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Bamboo

Bamboo - Bambusa species: Great as a background plant. These plants range from 10-30' in height and come in golden, striped, and black-stemmed varieties.


Butterfly Bush
Butterfly Bush — Buddleia davidii: Produces long wands of flower spikes in shades of red, purple, pink, and white that are fragrant and attract butterflies and hummingbirds like crazy! Grows 6-10' high and half as wide.

Day Lily
Day Lily — Hemerocallis hybrids: Incredible flowers power from lily-type blooms above grass-like foliage from late spring until early frost (depending on variety) in almost every color under the sun. Grows 1-3' high and almost as wide.

Beard-Tongue
Beard-Tongue — Penstemon species: Wonderful family of 1-3' mounding perennials with spikes of flowers above foliage. Flowers come in shades of white, pink, red, blue, and purple, blooming spring through fall.

Quaking Aspen
Quaking Aspen — Populus tremuloides: Fast growing tree with shimmering green leaves with lighter silvery-green backsides that flutter in the wind. Grows 30-65'.

Grasses


Feather Grass
Feather Grass - Calamagrostis acutifolia Karl Foerster: Narrow, green grassy leaves with feather plumes 4-5' tall that appear in early summer and last into fall.

Fountain Grass
Fountain Grass — Pennisetum setaceum: Widely used grass with soft green or redish-purple foliage and rosy-pink plumes in late summer and fall. Grows 3-4'.

Japanese Silver Grass
Japanese Silver Grass — Miscanthus species: Bold grasses in a variety of foliage colors. Well suited for mass plantings, with fan-shaped panicles 3-5' high.

Mexican Feather Grass
Mexican Feather Grass Grass — Stipa tenuissima: A beautiful compact grass with fine, hair-like bright green leaves.

Spikes of bearded green summer flowers change to handsome golden-blond plumes in fall. Grows 1-2' high.

Switch Grass
Switch Grass — Panicum species: Types of prairie grass valued for its green foliage and airy clouds of pink-tinged flowers in summer. Grows 3-5' high.