Sky Rocket Fountain Grass

Pennisetum setaceum

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Overview

Proven Winners - Graceful Grasses® 'Sky Rocket' - Fountain Grass - Pennisetum setaceum pink plant details, information and resources.

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Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Proven Winners - Graceful Grasses® 'Sky Rocket' - Fountain Grass - Pennisetum setaceum pink plant details

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — information and resources

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — a striking variegated fountain grass and ornamental fountain grass.

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Arching plumes of white flowers with green and white stripes foliage on sky rocket fountain grass

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — In almost all areas sky rocket fountain grass will be an annual ornamental grass

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Once the grass turns brown in the fall you can cut it back to the ground whenever you would like

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Where temperatures get colder than 15 degrees F

Culture

Sun: Full
Water: Medium

Shape & size

Mature height: 2–2.5 Ft.
Mature width: 1.3333334–1.6666666 Ft.

Classification

Family: Poaceae

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Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Proven Winners - Graceful Grasses® 'Sky Rocket' - Fountain Grass - Pennisetum setaceum pink plant details

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — information and resources

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — a striking variegated fountain grass and ornamental fountain grass.

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Arching plumes of white flowers with green and white stripes foliage on sky rocket fountain grass

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — In almost all areas sky rocket fountain grass will be an annual ornamental grass

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Once the grass turns brown in the fall you can cut it back to the ground whenever you would like

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Where temperatures get colder than 15 degrees F

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — It is a warm-season grass

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — the plants should be treated as annual ornamental grass like sky rocket fountain grass

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Once the grass turns brown it can either be removed immediately or removed in the spring

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — These ornamental fountain grass varieties will usually turn shades of brown for the winter

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Their major growth and flowering happens when the weather is hot

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — It should not be expected to live through the winter and begin growing again in the spring

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Cut back this warm season annual ornamental grass in fall or by mid to late spring

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Warm season grasses like sky rocket fountain grass turn shades of brown as the weather turns colder

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Not all ornamental fountain grass look good through the winter

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Snow or ice encrusted variegated fountain grass can be quite beautiful

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Once yourornamental fountain graas turn brown you can trim them back at almost any time

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — trim back those that don't look good in the fall

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Divide warm season grasses anytime spring through mid-summer

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — If the plants are dormant when they are transplanted they won't establish a good root system

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — This variety is especially dramatic in clusters

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — Warm season grasses will tend to bloom in mid to late summer

Sky Rocket Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum) — pink flowers in the garden

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