2021-2022 Hoffman Nursery Catalog of Grasses

Pennisetum orientale ‘Karley Rose’
ORIENTAL FOUNTAIN GRASS
One of our favorites for its many great qualities:
quick to establish, pink plumes throughout the
season, upright habit, deep-green foliage, and
drought tolerance. It’s also hardier than most P.
orientale. Discovered by David Skwiot of Sunny
Border Nurseries, Inc., Kensington, CT, who
named this gem after his daughter.
PENNISETUM
PEN-RHY
Pennisetum orientale ‘Karley Rose’
Warm season, green, 2.5’, 3’ with blooms, sun, dry,
flowers early summer, Zones 6-8, Origin: Asia
Pennisetum x advena ‘Rubrum’
PURPLE FOUNTAIN GRASS
Treated most often as an annual, Purple Fountain
Grass is easy, fast growing, and showy.
Used as specimens, in masses, fillers in perennial
beds, or in containers. Garnet-colored foliage
maintains its shape and color throughout
summer; red-purple bottlebrush blooms remain
lovely until frost. Believed to be a hybrid of P.
macrostachyum and P. setaceum.
Warm season, purple, 3’, 4’ with blooms, sun, dry,
flowers early summer, Zones 9-10, Origin: Tropical
Africa, SW Asia, Arabia
Pennisetum x advena ‘Rubrum’
Rhynchospora colorata
WHITE-TOPPED STAR SEDGE
This sedge is found in the lower southeastern
U.S. and into Texas in moist soils, wet pinelands,
savannahs, and marshes. It fits green
infrastructure projects like stormwater wetlands,
bioretention, and bioswales and attracts
a range of pollinators. Known for showy, white,
star-like bracts; spreads by rhizomes and forms
thick patches. Occurs most often on circumneutral
or basic substrates. It’s almost indistinguishable
from R. latifolia; for most of us the
two species are interchangeable.
Green, 1’, 1.5’ with bloom, flowers early summer,
sun-part shade, moist-4” of water, Zones 7-10,
Origin: North America
Rhynchospora colorata
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