Why Plant Purple Lovegrass?
Purple Lovegrass is the easy to care for plant your garden needs to add that pop of color! Each fine blade is topped with purplish-pink colors that appear nearing the end of summer. Lovegrass is a small, well-behaved ornamental perennial that are native to central and eastern North America. You can see these colorful grasses in sandy fields, along roadsides, and in woodlands. The airy pink seed heads float gracefully above the dense clumping foliage and dances in the wind. Purple Lovegrass will attract lovely songbirds to your garden with its messy and loose appearance - your garden will feel whimsical and ethereal. In the late summer to fall, the foliage appears of reddish-purple clouds which fades into a soft brown color. Lovegrasses are amazing at holding their color, so your garden will be elevated with its long-lasting bright purples! To create a soft romantic vibe in your garden, Purple Lovegrasses are perfect for you.
How to use Purple Lovegrass in the landscape?
Purple Lovegrass adds a beautiful pop of color in dry sandy and gravelly soils. Perfect late season landscape. Plant in open areas in small groups or mass together with other decorating grasses. Lovegrass compliments well with garden borders, meadow edges, or native plant gardens. Lovegrass also works well as a lawn alternative, as long as they are exposed to light foot traffic. These decorative grasses look stunning rock gardens and gives a new soft texture. Bring a whimsical vibe to cottage gardens and decorate city gardens with Lovegrasses.
Planting Zones
Hardiness Zone: 3-10
How To Plant Purple Lovegrass
Purple Lovegrass prefer to be planted in well drained, dry soil where they can bask in the sun all day. They are very tolerant of hot and dry conditions, then goes dormant in the winter. Lovegrass actively grows during the summer in warm soil conditions. They tolerate infertile, poor soil and are greatly resistant to droughts. Lovegrass spread themselves by self-seeding and steams rooting along the ground at the nodes.
How To Water
Since Purple Lovegrass is a relatively dry plant, they require low to medium watering. During the spring and summer, you can lightly water them but make sure the soil doesn't hold moisture.
How To Fertilize
Incorporate Elements Starter Plant Food granular form into the soil when planting. If planting in spring or summer, start fertilizing late fall using Elements Starter Plant food granular form on an annual basis each late fall. If planting in the fall, use Elements fertilizer while planting and start your regular annual fertilizing the following fall. Continue this for the first three years to get your plant well established as it gives your tree the nutrients it needs to produce lush new growth for the following spring.
How To Prune
Cut back old steams to the ground in early spring before growth resumes to make way for new healthy growth.
How Does Shipping Work?
Bower & Branch Trees, the real BIG trees, don’t fit in a box! Our big trees, sizes XL and bigger, require expert delivery and care, that means our extra-large trees are shipped on Bower & Branch trucks. We are the only ones who know how to ship our big and bigger trees and plants with tender loving care. We deliver your trees and plants directly to you. Ask Bower & Branch about planting services – we'd be happy to assist in installation.
*For Big trees and Shrubs, Size XL and bigger: Review our Seasonal Shipping Timelines and Policy here.
Your trees and plants are grown across the United States at various Bower & Branch Growers. Depending on your location, your plant orders may be shipped from various locations. Please expect orders with multiple items to be delivered over a number of days as a result. Orders made up of numerous items or selections will not arrive at your home on the same day.
Shipping Delays:
From time to time, Bower & Branch Growers may determine to delay order shipment based on various factors for plant health. Weather in your region, as well as, where your plants are grown, is always considered when shipping. Extreme weather conditions may delay some or all of your order. Bower & Branch allows our Growers to make final shipping decisions based solely to benefit your trees and plants’ health and success.
How Does Sizing Work?
The size of our trees have nothing to do with the container size like you may find elsewhere–big doesn't mean just height - it’s also vigor, age, and overall health. Other online retailers are going to tell you that a plant is a seven gallon, that means nothing to your tree or plant (or you.)
Our trees for sale online are graded on large, x-large, and even bigger sizes. This is because our trees are sized by their age—the higher the letter, the more mature the tree. The age determines the trees’ overall height, size of the trunk and the overall branch density.
All of these characteristics are what you should be looking for when choosing a tree for immediate impact and instant curb appeal. Our extra-large tree and plant sizes are sure to wow you and your neighbors!
See the size guides below.
