Cool as Ice Blue Fescue - Festuca glauca

As a cultivar, the 'Cool as Ice' Blue Fescue - Festuca glauca is the perfect addition to any garden. With its vibrant upright foliage, it provides a pop of color, which makes it a showy eye-catcher. Its thin blue leaf blades offer a powdery texture and in the summer, plumes of blue-green flowers appear, which eventually fade to a beautiful golden hue.

Cool as Ice is low maintenance and easy to grow. Once established, this plant is heat and drought tolerant, as well as resistant to salt and deer. Plant it in any well-draining soil, even poor quality, as it has low water requirements.

This truly is a versatile and stunning addition to any outdoor space. It can thrive in full sun to partial shade, and it grows to up to 15" tall x 15" wide. Hardy to -30°F when protected from windchill.