Eliajah Blue Fescue - First Spring Post-Division - April 2024
Last Fall, I dug up and divided the three Elijah Blue Fescue ornamental grass clumps that I planted in our IB2DWs bed and grew the colony (from three to six). I originally planted three of these Blue Fescues back in Spring of 2022 along with a trio of Nepeta 'Cat's Pajamas' in a sort-of blue-hue'd combination planting. These three were NEVER (to my eye) thriving, but they just chugged along over the course of two growing seasons. Last Fall, I noticed some center rot and then read up on these ornamental grasses and learned that they need to be divided every few years to push healthy new growth . So...I took my hori hori to them and created six grasses from three. I put them back in the same location and just 'expanded' the colony with a staggered set of grasses. Two of them were - at the time last fall - were TINY. To my surprise, all six came back, including the two tiny ones. Here, below, is a look at the six Elijah Blue Fes...