| Description | Imperata cylindrica rubra
Japanese blood grass is grown for its decorative foliage. The leaves emerge green at the base with tips blood red.
The vivid red colour increases in summer and is at its best in autumn. Japanese Blood Grass is a very good accent plant. It prefers a full sun position and can be planted near ponds or other water features.
6''/14cm pot
Please note: These plants die off during winter and go dormant with light brown foliage, they will come back every year with colour from Spring. | Fraxinus oxycarpa 'Raywoodii'
An attractive, some say fast growing deciduous tree with an upright growth habit and open canopy. The foliage is deep green and narrow in summer and as autumn approaches, turns a rich claret colour, hence the name. This is a beautiful tree with stunning autumn colours, tolerant of frost and drought. Mature height 12m H x 7m W | Rosa floribunda
Friesia Rose is an upright growing, compact bush with large amounts of double flowers with a strong fragrance and showy bright yellow colour. Available in many different variations. |
| Content | | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Imperata cylindrica "Rubra"
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| height x width |
50cm x 50cm
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| features |
showy decorative grass with upright green flushed dark red foliage, the vivid red color increases in summer and is at its best in autumn
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| conditions |
Plant in full sun to part shade in moist well-drained soil.
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| landscape use |
Ideal for pots, garden beds and groups for an instant color effect
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| botanical-name |
Fraxinus oxycarpa ?Raywood?
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| height-x-width |
10m x 8m
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| features |
Fine pinnate deep green leaves that turn rich claret color in autumn, a great color contrast
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| conditions |
Full sun in well drained soil
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| landscape-use |
Specimen, parks, street, avenues, driveways, shade tree
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