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Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass

Pennisetum purpureum

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Overview

Proven Winners - Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® - Purple Fountain Grass - Pennisetum purpureum none plant details, information and resources.

Sun FullWater Medium
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Proven Winners - Graceful Grasses® Vertigo® - Purple Fountain Grass - Pennisetum purpureum none plant

Culture

Sun
Full
Water
Medium

Shape & size

Mature height
4–8 Ft.
Mature width
2–3 Ft.

Classification

Family
Poaceae

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Photos (200)

Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Once this ornamental purple grass turns brown in the fall, image 194
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Graceful Grasses Vertigo is a warm-season grass; if you like to tidy your garden in fall or, image 196
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — The spiky foliage has a presence., In almost all areas it will be an annual grass; all, image 193
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — you can cut it back to the ground whenever you would like; this purple fountain grass, image 195
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Where temperatures get colder than 15 degrees F, the plants should be treated as annuals, image 197
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Once the grass turns brown it can either be removed immediately or removed in the spring, image 198
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — It should not be expected to live through the winter and begin growing again in the spring, image 199
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — In areas where winter temperatures remain above 15 degrees; trim warm season grasses so, image 200

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