Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberspinne'

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Price:  £6.50 Notify me when this item is available Family:  Poaceae Main Season:  Autumn Flower Colour:  Pink Leaf Colour:  Green Foliage:  Deciduous Position:  Sun Soil Type:  Ordinary, medium loam Height:  1.2m to 1.8m (4' to 6') Peat Free?  Not yet Hardiness Guide:  RHS H6 minimum -15C to -20C Pot Size:  1.4L Availability:      None available at present. View our Pot Size guide:

An excellent, upright columnar form with fine foliage and masses of pinkish flowers that fade to a bright buff. 1.5m. Average to good soil in sun. Cut back in late winter/early spring.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Silberspinne' has been around for a while now but it's still a great plant making a billowing clump of it's narrow leaves topped with masses of silky flowers in late summer and autumn.  The flowers start a decent pinkish silver and fade to a gleaming silvery buff as they turn to seed.  As with many forms the habit is strictly upright when young but older plants will be more rounded, divide every 5 years or so to retain the columnar habit.

Delightful as a specimen plant amongst lower growing perennials or it also suits mass planting in a formal or informal fashion.  As with all Miscanthus a reasonable soil that does not dry out too much in full sun is best.  1.5m is typical.

Introduced by Ernst Pagels in Germany, 1987.