Taking Care of your Plant

Congratulations on Winning or Buying one of our Home Grown Plants.

When you get it home, take it out of the packaging and give it a little water.

You can either pop it straight into a prepared area of land in your garden or in a reasonable size plant pot.

It has been nurtured and grown in a 9cm pot and removed from the pot for posting and packaging purposes.

A little water was given the night before travelling and all intentions of fast safe delivery where ensured by taking your plant to the post office.

Arundacia Stipa or Pheasent Tail Grass as this variety is called needs very little care to become established in your garden.
We have found that it grows any where, enjoys most soils, and is not stressed in dry or wet conditions.
Having said that, a good watering during a very dry season will bring it into a beautiful lush plant, where as denying it water will make it dry and colourful.

How you care for it, is up to you. Once its established in your garden its quite prolific, and self seeds and pops up every where.

All our plants that we have grown to maturity and sold or auctioned on Ebay or self seeded plants from the original or mother plant that grows in our garden.

new-zealand-wind-grass
http://plantsmart.easybloom.com/plantlibrary/plant/new-zealand-wind-grass
Is a great site for more information.

RHS
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=140

If you have any issues keep a note of my email or blog site and let me know what the problem is send photos if desired.

My Blog
http://plantsgrown4u.blogspot.co.uk/
plantsgrown4u@gmail.com





Festuca Glauca Blue Elijah

Follow the intstructions as Above.

Don't worry if your plant looks a little "limp lettuce" this is probably transportation. 
I recently planted 3 Blue Elijah in the garden, watered them nurtured them, they looked very "limp lettuce"
After a few days, getting their roots down, recovering from the stress of transportation they livened up and have settled down well together with their fellow grasses.

I have even brought practically "dead" looking grasses back to life in the Glauca family.

The Glauca likes dry, medium dry, hot, sunny even shady areas. Its not fussy about what soil it lives in as long as its watered in well. Don't let it sit in boggy area, as the roots could start to rot off. Test or consult experts if planting in a boggy area.

festuca-glauca-elijah-blue
http://www.perennials.com/plants/festuca-glauca-elijah-blue.html

gardenersworld.com/plants/festuca-glauca-elijah-blue/
http://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/festuca-glauca-elijah-blue/1583.html

Note the colours are deceptive, a little editing on your camera or photoshop program creates a bluer than life grass colour.

ornamentalgrasses/p/blue_fescue
 http://landscaping.about.com/od/ornamentalgrasses/p/blue_fescue.htm


water well until both the plants are well established. 


If after a week or two there is no progress, take a photograph of the plant and let me know, I will be happy to pop another one in the post if I think its dead.
Dead grasses, look dead from the bottom up not from the top down so dont' worry.

Someone taught me a great tip for all plants that look "dead".
Take a small knife or a good strong finger nail, and scratch into the bark, if its green its healthy, if its brown not so healthy.

I am very particular about my grasses and how well they recover from transportation. I have never had an issue before but there is always a first.

Best thing to do, if your really concerned is wrap it up, drop it in the post just a plain old letter packet will do. Send it back to me and I will replace it no issues, I do not reimburse postage costs and will forward the postage cost of the replacement plant.