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Enter code FREEPLANT9 for a free Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant'
with website orders over £40
Enter code FREEPLANT9 for a free Nepeta
with website orders over £40
Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal'
(Switch Grass) Native to North America, this perennial, deciduous grass creates a stunning architectural display from early summer through until winter when its dried stems and flowers stand pale gold against grey skies.
1 x free Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant' (3L pot) with website orders over £40
Enter code FREEPLANT9 during checkout.
Lovely perennial with spikes of lavender blue flowers in summer
One free plant per person only. Excludes orders for gift vouchers.
Native to North America, this perennial, deciduous grass creates a stunning architectural display from early summer through until winter when its dried stems and flowers stand pale gold against grey skies.
'Heavy Metal' is a particularly upright form and at 1 m in height slightly shorter than most, with narrow green leaves liberally tinged with dark steely grey. The seedheads appear in late summer as a diffuse cloud of reddish purple spikelets.
Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal' is a very attractive grass suitable for mixed borders.
- Position: Full sun or light, dappled shade.
- Soil: Well drained, fertile soil.
- Hardiness: Hardy.
- Flowering Period: August.
- Rate of Growth: Moderate.
- Habit: Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal' grows to be a small to medium sized, clump forming grass.
- Height: 100 cm (3 ft)
- Spread: 60 cm (2 ft)
- How Much Sun
- Full Sun, Light Shade
- Eventual Size
- Grass - Medium (1m - 2m)
- Growing Conditions
- Soil: Not Fussy, Soil: Acid, Soil: Alkaline, Site: Windy, Soil: Dry/Sandy
- Special Features
- Foliage - Blue/Silver, Suitable for Containers
