Festuca glauca Easy Blue
Festuca glauca Easy Blue
Festuca glauca Easy Blue
Blue Fescue, Grey Fescue
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Description
The 'Easy Blue' Festuca is a lovely variety of Blue Fescue, which forms a dense, tousled, bluish clump, creating a beautiful effect in the garden or in a pot. This small perennial grass, evergreen in winter, is adorned in the second half of spring with gracefully trailing silver spikelets, adding a luminous touch to the plant. Resistant and water-saving, it can be planted in borders, at the front of flower beds, in rock gardens, or in flower pots.
Native to central Europe and rocky areas of the western Mediterranean, Blue Fescue, known as Festuca glauca in Latin, has long been naturalised in various regions of the world due to its minimal soil requirements, perfect hardiness, and high drought resistance. Like many grasses, it belongs to the large family of poaceae. In nature, it grows in dry and poor soil, sandy and rocky soils, and in full sun. It has given rise to some stunning cultivars selected for their beauty.
'Easy Blue' Fescue is a non-running perennial plant that forms small, hemispherical, stiff, very dense, rounded clumps, reaching a height and width of 25-30 cm (10-12in). Its foliage consists of stiff, very fine, silvery-blue leaves covered with a waxy coating that gives it a metallic appearance, also indicating its excellent adaptation to dry environments. Flowering occurs from the end of June. Very slender, blue-coloured flower stems emerge from the center of the clump. They bear loosely arranged, silver-coloured spikes at their tips. Over time, these inflorescences turn more yellow, indicating that the seeds are ripe. These seeds are dispersed by the wind, self-seeding here and there in light soils. The lifespan of the plant is about 5 to 6 years in poor and well-drained soil.
The 'Easy Blue' Blue Fescue will easily find its place in a rock garden, a scree garden, a slope, along a path, and can even be an alternative to lawn in dry areas with moderate foot traffic. Its light spike-like flowering gives this small vegetal hedgehog a pleasantly tousled appearance that attenuates its stiffness. It can be mixed, for example, with creeping plants such as Lamb's Ears (Stachys), Erigeron karvinskianus, Gauras, Cotton Lavenders, Sages, and many others. It also adapts very well to container gardening, lightening up floral compositions or to fill the base of a small palm tree, a cactus, or an Aeonium, for example.
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Festuca
glauca
Easy Blue
Poaceae
Blue Fescue, Grey Fescue
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atteinterespiratoire
Cette plante peut entraîner des symptômes allergiques.
Evitez de la planter si vous ou vos proches souffrez de rhinite saisonnière ("rhume des foins").
Davantage d'informations sur https://plantes-risque.info
Planting and care
Plant the 'Easy Blue' blue fescue in spring or autumn, in well-drained soil, preferably neutral to alkaline, moist to dry in summer, even rocky, sandy and stony, in full sun or partial shade. In case of intense drought and over time, the centre of the clump sometimes thins out. It is then necessary to divide the plant to rejuvenate it. Shorten or mow the foliage in late February, before the new foliage shoots. This truly undemanding grass requires no further care.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a (East Coast and Midlands: Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Portlaoise). It will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the north-west (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Westport), delay planting by 1 to 2 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 1 to 2 weeks in autumn compared to the dates given, preferably choosing periods without strong winds.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (Wicklow Mountains, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, Connemara, Killarney), it is best to plant in spring (April–May) or autumn (September–October), avoiding periods of waterlogged soil in winter and strong winds, which pose the main risk to newly planted trees in these areas.
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a, such as the East Coast and Midlands, including Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny and Portlaoise.
This will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the northwest (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal and Westport), it will be delayed by one to two weeks compared to the given dates, due to stronger Atlantic winds and less spring sunshine.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (the Wicklow Mountains, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Connemara and Killarney), flowering will be delayed by two to three weeks. Flowering mainly occurs between May and July, with the limiting factors being less frost and more of the excessive humidity, strong winds and lack of sunshine that are characteristic of these areas.
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