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Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass

Pennisetum purpureum

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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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Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Divide warm season grasses anytime spring through mid-summer, image 77
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — this purple fountain grass should be considered a perennial and the following information, image 39
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Divide warm season grasses anytime spring through mid-summer, image 104
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — information and resources; in areas where winter temperatures remain above 15 degrees
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — information and resources; in areas where winter temperatures remain above 15 degrees, image 164
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — If you like to tidy your garden in fall or if you live in an area where fire can be, image 73
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Where temperatures get colder than 15 degrees F, the plants should be treated as annuals, image 170
Vertigo® Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum purpureum) — Their major growth and flowering happens when the weather is hot
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