Little Zebra Grass Plants

Miscanthus sinensis 'Little Zebra' - 2 Litre Pot-Grown Plants

Examined up close, the yellow horizontal stripes on Dwarf Zebra Grass's dark green leaves look like they have been covered in sticking plaster while the rest of the leaf has greened up, but from any distance the effect is to brighten a mature clump. The pale ruddy-purple flowers, like silky tassels on head-high stems reliably appear to add colour through the late Summer and Autumn.

It is a tidy, upright grass with dense foliage to make a chest-high ornamental hedge.

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Features

• Deciduous grass
• Yellow bands on the leaves
• Clump forming
• Long pale purple flowers on head-high stems
• Suitable for ornamental "hedge"
• Grows upright in full sun
• To 120cm x 75cm

Growing 'Little Zebra' Grass

Grasses are tough and with a little help will establish almost anywhere there is some soil, so be brave with them as rockery features. Their favourite soil is fertile, moist and well drained, and full sun brings out their most upright habit. Plants grown in partial shade are fine, except they tend to flop.

Like any grass, they benefit from being sheared down to low mounds (as if munched by a zebra), every late Winter or early Spring to make way for new growth.

In Your Garden Design

Shorter in stature than 'Zebrinus', 'Little Zebra' is suitable for small gardens or patios, and is also suitable for containers. Several grown together make an impressive sight in autumn and into winter, with their feathery plumes massed like flags at the Glastonbury Festival. Plant it in a position where it is backlit by the sun to make the most of their silvery mass. Daffodils, tulips and poppies are good planted alongside them as the grasses hide the dying leaves of the other plants after the flowers have died.

Did You Know?

'Little Zebra' was found as a sport of the species Miscanthus sinensis by Tomas M Walsh of Michigan in 1995 - was until recently patent protected.