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Purple Fountain Grass

Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum'

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Overview

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

Water Medium

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Proven Winners - Graceful Grasses® Purple Fountain Grass - Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' pink plant

Culture

Water: Medium

Shape & size

Mature height: 2.5–3 Ft.
Mature width: 1–2 Ft.

Classification

Family: Poaceae

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Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — pink flowers in the garden; all ornamental grasses should be divided when they are actively growing but

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — In almost all areas, Rubrum will be grown as an annual grass in Graceful Grasses selections, image 69

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — you can leave the dried grasses and seed heads in your garden for winter interest with Graceful Grasses

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Not all ornamental grasses look good through the winter; snow or ice encrusted ornamental, image 155

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Warm season grasses turn shades of brown as the weather turns colder; not all ornamental, image 178

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — For proper ornamental grasses care; information and resources, image 179

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Cut back warm season grasses, including rubrum grass, in fall or by mid to late spring; once, image 145

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — This purple fountain grass rubrum is a warm-season grass; you can trim them back at almost, image 136

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Bronze-purple foliage topped with graceful arches of burgundy-toned seed heads

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — you can trim them back at almost any time; they will usually turn shades of brown for the, image 117

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — once your warm season grasses turn brown; where temperatures get colder than 20 degrees F, image 148

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — They will usually turn shades of brown for the winter; rubrum should be considered a, image 144

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — If you live in an area where fire generally isn't a problem; in almost all areas, Rubrum, image 120

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Their major growth and flowering happens when the weather is hot; once the rubrum grass, image 207

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Proven Winners - Graceful Grasses® Purple Fountain Grass - Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' pink, image 129

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — you can cut it back to the ground whenever you would like as part of ornamental grasses care, image 39

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — you can leave the dried grasses and seed heads in your garden for winter interest with, image 89

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — In areas where winter temperatures remain above 20 degrees

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Where temperatures get colder than 20 degrees F, the plants should be treated as annuals

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Not all ornamental grasses look good through the winter; snow or ice encrusted ornamental, image 123

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — All ornamental grasses should be divided when they are actively growing but not while they are flowering

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Once the rubrum grass turns brown it can either be removed immediately or removed in the, image 202

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — Once the rubrum grass turns brown in the fall

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum') — They will usually turn shades of brown for the winter; rubrum should be considered a perennial and the

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