Stipa Lessingiana

Organic Stipa Lessingiana - Lessing Feather Grass 

🌿 This organic Stipa Lessingiana is also known as Lessing feather grass. It's a stunning ornamental grass that adds texture, movement, and beauty to any garden. This perennial grass is native to the steppes of Eurasia, from Greece to Mongolia, and has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant, and low-maintenance plant that thrives in full sun and well-drained soil. It produces graceful, feathery panicles of pale yellow-brown flowers in summer, which dry to a buff colour in autumn and persist through winter. Our Stipa Lessingiana is a sustainably grown, carbon-sequestering, and wildlife-friendly plant that will enhance your garden with its elegant and natural charm.

🌞 Features:

🌱 Flowers: Stipa Lessingiana produces narrow, arching, silvery-green flower panicles in summer, which turn to a pale yellow-brown colour in autumn. The flowers are wispy, airy, and delicate, creating a soft and ethereal effect in the garden. The flowers are also great for cutting and drying, as they retain their shape and colour for a long time.

🌿 Habit: Stipa Lessingiana is a densely tufted, deciduous perennial grass that grows up to 1 metre tall and 0.5 metre wide. It has upright, narrowly linear, bright green leaves that are folded or rolled. The leaves turn brown in winter, but do not shed, providing year-round interest and structure in the garden.

🏡 Landscaping: Stipa Lessingiana is a versatile and attractive plant that can be used in various landscaping styles and settings. It can be planted as a specimen, in groups, or in mixed borders with other perennials, shrubs, or grasses. It can also be used as a ground cover, a container plant, or an edging plant. Stipa Lessingiana adds texture, movement, and colour to the garden, especially when the wind catches its feathery flowers. It also creates a beautiful contrast with other plants, like lavenders, salvias, or echinacea.

🌸 Low Maintenance:

Stipa Lessingiana is a low-maintenance plant that does not require much care or attention. It is drought-tolerant, frost-hardy, and pest- and disease-free and does not need regular watering, fertilising, or pruning. The only care it needs is to cut back all the dead leaves and stems in late winter or early spring, before the new growth begins. This will keep the plant tidy and healthy, and encourage fresh and vigorous growth.

🍂 Year-round Interest: Stipa Lessingiana is a plant that offers year-round interest and beauty in the garden. In spring, it produces fresh and bright green leaves that contrast with the brown stems. In summer, it produces stunning and airy flower panicles that sway in the breeze and catch the light. In autumn, it changes colour to a pale yellow-brown, adding warmth and richness to the garden. In winter, it retains its dried flowers and leaves, creating a striking and architectural effect in the garden. Stipa Lessingiana is a plant that never fails to impress, no matter the season.

🏡 Garden Uses: Stipa Lessingiana is a plant that can be used in various ways in the garden, depending on your preference and style. Here are some possible garden uses for this ornamental grass:

• Use it as a focal point in a sunny border, where its height, texture, and movement will draw attention and create interest.
• Use it as a backdrop to contrast and harmonise with other grasses, perennials, and shrubs.
• Suppress weeds and create a carpet of green and brown by using Stipa Lessiniana as ground cover, filling bare patches in the border.
• Its drought tolerance and year round interest makes it an excellent container plant, where it will add height and elegance to your patio or balconey.
• Plant it to define and soften the edges of your paths, beds, or borders.
• Consider using stems in a cut flower arrangement, where it will add grace and beauty to your bouquets, arrangements, or vases.
• Use it as a dried flower, where it will last for months and years, and decorate your home, office, or craft projects.

🌱 How to Care For Stipa Lessingiana

Stipa Lessingiana is a very easy and rewarding plant to grow and care for.

🌞 Plant it in full sun, in a well-drained, moderately fertile soil. Avoid heavy, wet, or clay soils, as they may cause root rot or fungal diseases.

🌧️ Water it sparingly, only when the soil is dry. Do not overwater, as it may cause the plant to flop or die. Stipa Lessingiana is very drought-tolerant, and can survive long periods of dryness.

🌱 Fertilise it lightly, once a year in spring, with a balanced, organic fertiliser if your soil needs improvement. Do not over fertilise, as it may cause the plant to grow too fast or too tall, and lose its shape and form

.✂️ Prune it once a year, in late winter or early spring, before the new growth begins. Cut back all the dead leaves and stems to the ground, using sharp and clean scissors or shears. This will keep the plant tidy and healthy, and encourage fresh and vigorous growth.

🪴 Divide it every few years, in spring or autumn, to maintain its vigour and prevent overcrowding. Dig up the plant, and split it into smaller sections, using a sharp and clean knife or spade. Replant the sections in new locations, or share them with your friends or neighbours.

🚫 Is Stipa Lessingiana Invasive?

Stipa Lessingiana is not invasive, and does not pose a threat to the environment or native plants. It is a clump-forming plant that doesn't spread and doesn't self-seed prolifically. It is a well-behaved and controlled plant that stays within its boundaries,.

🌍 Carbon Sequestering Plant

Stipa Lessingiana is a carbon sequestering plant,helping to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, helping you to fight climate change in your own garden. Plants are natural carbon sequesters, as they use carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, and store it in their biomass. Stipa Lessingiana is a particularly effective carbon sequester, as it has a high biomass production, a long lifespan, and a low decomposition rate. It also has a deep and extensive root system, that stores carbon in the soil, and improves its quality and structure. By growing Stipa Lessingiana in your garden, you are not only enhancing its beauty and diversity, but also helping the environment and the planet.

🌼 Why Choose Stipa Lessingiana?

Stipa Lessingiana is a plant that offers many benefits and advantages for your garden and your well-being. Here are some reasons why you should choose Stipa Lessingiana for your garden:

• It is a stunning and elegant ornamental grass, that adds texture, movement, and beauty to any garden.
• It is a hardy and resilient plant, that can withstand harsh conditions, such as drought, frost, and pests.
• It is a low-maintenance plant, that does not require much care or attention, and saves you time and money.
• It is a year-round plant, that provides interest and structure in every season, and never goes out of style.
• It is an organic and eco-friendly plant, that does not need any chemicals or pesticides, and helps to reduce carbon dioxide and improve soil health.
• It is a wildlife-friendly plant, that attracts and supports pollinators, birds, and other beneficial animals, and enhances biodiversity and ecosystem services.
• It is a versatile and adaptable plant, that can be used in various ways and styles, and suits any garden size and type

🐾 Beneficial to Wildlife

Stipa Lessingiana plays a crucial role in bolstering wildlife populations. Similar to numerous ornamental grasses, it serves as a source of winter sustenance for seed-eating birds while offering shelter to small mammals and insects. Combining it with other grassland or prairie plants can create a really beautiful, but also inviting environment that attracts a diverse array of beneficial insects to your garden. 🐞

🌱 Chemical-Free Gardening

If like me you are committed to supporting pollinators and insect populations, you can be confident that our plants are cultivated without the use of pesticides or herbicides. There's no danger of harmful chemical residues affecting insects. Your garden can flourish naturally, fostering a harmonious ecosystem.

🌱 Our Organic Approach

At our organic plant nursery, we are committed to providing you with the highest quality and healthiest plants, while respecting and protecting the environment and nature. We follow organic principles and practices, such as:

• Using only approved organic fertilisers and soil association certified organic compost, that nourish the soil and the plants, and do not harm wildlife or water sources.
• Avoiding any synthetic or chemical pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides, that may damage the plants, the soil, or the ecosystem, and opting for natural and biological methods of pest and disease control, such as companion planting, crop rotation, or beneficial insects.
• Using fully renewable and sustainable sources of energy and water that reduce our carbon footprint and our impact on the environment.

♻️ Eco-friendly Plants

We are dedicated to eco-consciousness. Did you know that nearly half a billion plastic pots find their way into UK landfills each year? Our approach is different: we use wood fiber pots or wooden troughs for potting our plants, effectively minimising waste. I meticulously prepare and deliver them using carbon offset delivery by Royal Mail, which is already the lowest carbon footprint parcel service - ensuring a hassle-free and environmentally sustainable experience.

🌾 Choose Lessing Feather Grass and let your garden bloom naturally. Begin your journey to a more beautiful, eco-friendly garden today! 🌾🌼✨