Add graceful movement and deep color to your garden with Pennisetum Rubrum, also known as Purple Fountain Grass. This hardy ornamental grass features rich burgundy foliage and soft, feathery purple plumes that sway beautifully from summer through frost. Perfect for borders, garden beds, or decorative containers, it brings instant texture and drama to any landscape. Low-maintenance and heat-tolerant, it’s a stunning focal point or complementary accent in mixed plantings.
Pennisetum Rubrum, also known as Purple Fountain Grass, features bronze-purple foliage topped with graceful arches of burgundy-toned seed heads; It is ideal to add beautiful color and texture in a landscape or decorative container
Purple Fountain Grass is happiest in bright, full sunlight with at least 6 hours of exposure, but will also tolerate some shade
Water regularly until roots are established; then water weekly or more in extreme heat or when used in containers
Purple Fountain Grass is cold hardy to USDA Zones 9-11; a heat tolerant variety, it looks incredible in mass plantings in the landscape, as a sole specimen or used as a thriller in containers
Shipment includes (3) 2.00-QT Pennisetum Rubrum Grass
Remove plants from shipping packaging upon arrival, water if soil feels dry
Feed with compost in landscape beds or with monthly dose of all purpose fertilizer when grown in pots and containers
Items ship pre-bloom and slightly smaller than images shown and will grow into mature plants
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