Helictotrichon sempervirens, Blue Oat Grass Size:0.42 qt 'Charlotte Bishop' is a mauve-pink

'Charlotte Bishop' is a mauve-pink star-flower blooming in late winter

It is always a delight to behold while walking through our woods outside the nursery deer fence with the greyhounds

This one is much more elegant than the usual daylily

and still a formidable vertical presence in winter

Clumping and upright

Helictotrichon sempervirens, Blue Oat Grass Size:0.42 qt 'Charlotte Bishop' is a mauve-pinkPowdery blue gray narrow blades are topped with buff yellow 2 foot tall seed heads late in the season. An ever blue gray presence for the winter landscape with a strong rounded form, this one keeps its shape. Whereas fescues (another blue gray rounded grass) might be used en masse as a texture, Blue Oat Grass, larger and with a more solid form, is more likely to be used as one would use a shrubas an accent, a rhythmic device in the garden, or a