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Hameln Dwarf Hardy Fountain Grass (Pennisetum) – 1 Gallon Pot

Original price was: $39.97.Current price is: $27.98.

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Hameln Dwarf Fountain Grass

Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hameln’

Other Names: Hameln Hardy Fountain Grass

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Ornamental Grass

Height at Maturity: 2-3′

Width at Maturity: 2-3′
Spacing: Space 2′ apart for mass plantings; 4’+ apart for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Arching, Clumping, Upright

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

Flower Color: Silvery white
Flower Size: 5-6″
Flower Type: Bottlebrush-like
Flowering Period: Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid-Fall

Foliage Color: Green turning to Bright Golden-Yellow in Fall

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun

Water Needs: Average, very low established

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Well Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5

Maintenance / Care: Very Low

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Attracts: Visual Attention, Birds

Description

‘Hameln’ is a very cold hardy fountain grass producing bottlebrush-like spikes of pretty, silvery-white flowers on thin stems that rise above upright arching mounds of green leaves during summer. The flowers turn a buff color when dry and are excellent fresh or dried in floral arrangements. The leaves turn bright-golden yellow in fall and remain attractive into winter adding extra appeal in the landscape.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 2 to 3 feet tall and wide, Hameln Fountain Grass is ideal for use as an accent or in groupings or stunning mass plantings in landscape borders and home foundation plantings. Also very nice as an accent or centerpiece in container gardens surrounded by trailing flowering plants such as Calibrachoa (million bells). A fine addition to ornamental grass gardens, rock gardens, around garden ponds, and cut flower gardens.

Spacing: 24-30 inches for mass plantings; 5 feet or more for space between plants

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Zone 5a, where this Pennisetum grass is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Fountain Grass is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average to low fertility and full to mostly sun. Constantly soggy soil or standing water is problematic. Plants are quite drought tolerant once established. Maintenance is little to none. A damaged flower can be removed any time during the season. Foliage should be cut back near the ground annually before new leaves begin to emerge in late winter or early spring.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Pennisetum Fountain Grasses.

How To Plant Pennisetum Fountain Grasses

How To Fertilize, Water & Prune Pennisetum Fountain Grasses

How To Measure Square Feet of A Planting Area

Determining How Many Plants To Fill A Planting Area

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The shipping process was timely, and the healthy plant was well packed. The soil was moist upon arrival. Wilson Brothers has always been predictable, professional, and is a pleasure to work with!————————————————————–Thanks for the kind words and wonderful review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I bought 3 Hameln Dwarf Hardy Fountain Grass 1-gallon pots from Wilson Bros Gardens, which arrived in outstanding condition. They are looking good, and I can’t wait to see them develop over the summer and start cranking out their flower spikes. Wilson Brothers free shipping is a much-appreciated bonus when I start shopping for plants (which I do way too often), and everything I have gotten from them is thriving in my garden.——————————————————Thanks for the kind words and awesome review! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG