• Eventual Height: 0.45m
  • Eventual Spread: 0.3m
tufted hair grass

Deschampsia cespitosa 'Pixie Fountain'

tufted hair grass

size: 5 litre pot   available within 2-3 days   Buy

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  • Position: full sun or partial shade
  • Soil: reliably moist, neutral to acid soil
  • Rate of growth: average to fast-growing
  • Flowering period: June to August
  • Flower colour: silvery but turning to biscuit shades
  • Hardiness: fully hardy

    Forming dense evergreen clumps of slender foliage, this low-growing grass produces sprays of flowerspikes, which emerge above the foliage in early summer. They emerge with a delightful silvery sheen before maturing to gold. A wonderful partner to summer flowering perennials, its whispy habit, which catches the breeze easily, helps create movement in the border.

  • Garden care: Remove the faded flower-heads in late winter before new growth appears. In warm areas the plant has a tendency to self-seed freely. Where this is the case remove unwanted seedlings as part of routine border maintenance.


  • Eventual Height: 0.45m
  • Eventual Spread: 0.3m
Deschampsia cespitosa 'Pixie Fountain' - tufted hair grass A petit form