United States Plant Patent PP#23,307 awarded January 1, 2013. It has slender, cascading foliage that is intensely silver-blue throughout the growing season. Festuca glauca Beyond Blue PP23307 - 50 per flat. Forms a clump that remains blue all season. This low-maintenance gem will thrive despite heat, humidity or poor soils. Beyond Blue Festuca, Festuca glauca Casca11, is a strikingly bright blue compact perennial grassy accent plant for edging or mass planting. Beyond Blue is a striking plant as a mass planting in the landscape or as a specimen in mixed containers. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. Flowers fade to light brown by late summer and can be cut back if preferred. However, the Beyond Blue can survive in some partial shady spots, but the color will not be as vibrant. For a richer color, the Beyond Blue requires abundant sun. If you are planting this fescue in your landscape, it needs at least six hours of sunlight per day. It is an evergreen to semi-evergreen grass with a compact, dwarf habit that grows 3/4 to 1 ft. Beyond Blue Fescue will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 18 inches. The Beyond Blue fescue can thrive in USDA hardiness zones 4 to 8. 'Casca11', sold under the trade name of BEYOND BLUE, was discovered in 2002 by Annemarie Blom of Haarsteeg, The Netherlands as a naturally occurring mutation of Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'. Specific epithet means with a white, powdery coating. Genus name comes from the Latin word meaning a grass stalk or straw. Flowers give way to buffy seed heads which some gardeners find attractive but others find detractive to both the symmetry of the plant and the foliage color. Great for rock gardens, edging borders or mass planting as a groundcover. Great to accent a rock garden, or for use en masse to edge a border or create a groundcover. Blue Fescue Grass with its icy blue coloration is a clumping ornamental grass, its eye catching color holds its own in the heat of summer. Buff-colored plumes create eye-catching contrast in late summer. Light green flowers with a purple tinge appear in terminal panicles atop stems rising above the foliage in late spring to early summer, but inflorescences are not very showy. Beyond Blue Fescue Festuca glauca 'Casca11' PP 23,37 A dense mound of intense, colorfast, powder blue foliage that provides waterwise, heat and humidity tolerant texture. Foliage forms a dome-shaped, porcupine-like tuft of erect to arching, needle-like blades radiating upward and outward to a height of 6-8" (inflorescences typically bring total clump height to 10-14"). Festuca glauca, commonly called blue fescue, is a short-lived, low-growing, semi-evergreen, clump-forming ornamental grass noted for its glaucous, finely-textured, blue-gray foliage.
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