Who grows Festuca Beyond Blue wholesale in Australia?

2 wholesale growers list Festuca Beyond Blue on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Queensland and New South Wales. The growers are named on this page.

What pot sizes does Festuca Beyond Blue come in?

Growers on HortOS list Festuca Beyond Blue in 140mm and 200mm.

How do I order Festuca Beyond Blue from these growers?

HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.

How big does Festuca Beyond Blue grow?

The Missouri Botanical Garden, the only reference read that describes it, gives 0.23 to 0.3 m high and 0.3 to 0.46 m wide. It calls the habit compact and dwarf, though those are the figures it gives the species.

What is the difference between Beyond Blue and Elijah Blue?

The Missouri Botanical Garden says Beyond Blue was found in 2002 as a naturally occurring mutation of Elijah Blue. By its pages, Beyond Blue has thin, cascading leaves of an intense silver-blue and twice the width of Elijah Blue, and rates medium for maintenance where Elijah Blue rates high.

Is Beyond Blue evergreen?

The Missouri Botanical Garden calls it evergreen to semi-evergreen. The same page says the foliage may keep good colour in a mild winter but can brown in a harsh one.

Does Beyond Blue cope with humidity?

The Missouri Botanical Garden says the foliage may decline badly in hot, humid summers, as it says of the species, and that a clump that declines should be cut back. No Australian reference read covers how it behaves in humid districts here.

Festuca Beyond Blue

Festuca glauca 'Casblue'

2 growers · 2 sizes · from $7.10 ex GST

Beyond Blue (Festuca glauca 'Casca11') is a form of blue fescue found in the Netherlands in 2002 as a naturally occurring mutation of Elijah Blue. The Missouri Botanical Garden, the only reference read that describes it, gives it thin leaves that cascade and keep an intense silver-blue through the growing season. It calls the habit compact and dwarf, but the figures it gives, 0.23 to 0.3 m high and 0.3 to 0.46 m wide, are the ones it gives the species.

Illustration of blue fescue 'Beyond Blue': a tuft of thin, cascading, intensely silver-blue blades with slender flower stems rising above — Blue fescue 'Beyond Blue', the silver-blue tuft

Type: Semi-evergreen grass
Height: 0.23 m to 0.3 m
Spread: 0.3 m to 0.46 m
Flowers: Green, late spring to early summer
Sun: Full sun, the best colour there; tolerates light shade
Drought: Tolerant
In Australia: Not native

Size	Grower	Location	PricePrice ex GST
140mm	Ausplant Nursery140mm	East Dalby, QLD	$7.55
140mm	Botanica Nurseries140mm	NSW	$7.10
200mm	Botanica Nurseries200mm	NSW	$12.50

Also grown by 1 nursery (no sizes or prices listed)

Enquire with them for sizes and prices.

Sprint Horticulture Pty LtdPeats Ridge, NSW

Growing beyond Blue

For sun, soil, water and cutting back, the Missouri Botanical Garden's page for Beyond Blue repeats its species text, so the blue fescue page applies. The same shared text carries the species' limits: the plants are short lived, clumps tend to die out in the centre and need dividing or replacing every two to three years, and the foliage may decline badly in hot, humid summers.

Its summary for Beyond Blue differs from the species' in two places. Its American hardiness zones run one zone warmer than those it gives the species, and it calls the plant evergreen to semi-evergreen, where the species is semi-evergreen. It rates the maintenance medium, as for the species, where it rates that of Elijah Blue high.

No Australian reference read covers Beyond Blue, and none gives a frost rating or climate zones for it.

Using beyond Blue

The Missouri Botanical Garden's page for Beyond Blue gives it the species' uses and dense groundcover spacing word for word, so the blue fescue page sets them out: accents in rock gardens and at border fronts, edging along paths and borders, and groundcover over small areas. No reference read gives Beyond Blue a use or a spacing of its own. Where a narrower clump is wanted, the same reference gives Elijah Blue half the width of Beyond Blue.

What to check before you buy

Growers list this plant as Festuca glauca (Casblue) Beyond Blue. The Missouri Botanical Garden gives its cultivar name as 'Casca11', sold under the trade name Beyond Blue, and no reference read links the name Casblue to it, so compare listings by the trade name. The same reference records a United States plant patent for it. The listings on this page show the sizes growers list. For what to check in the pot, see the HortOS guide to nursery plant quality: roots, pests and hardening off. Stock that crosses a state border moves under the state and territory biosecurity rules on moving plants and soil.

Used forgroundcover mass planting pots and courtyards pollinators and wildlife

Prices are set by each grower and shown ex GST. Availability is confirmed by the grower at order.

Common questions

Who grows Festuca Beyond Blue wholesale in Australia?: 2 wholesale growers list Festuca Beyond Blue on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Queensland and New South Wales. The growers are named on this page.
What pot sizes does Festuca Beyond Blue come in?: Growers on HortOS list Festuca Beyond Blue in 140mm and 200mm.
How do I order Festuca Beyond Blue from these growers?: HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.
How big does Festuca Beyond Blue grow?: The Missouri Botanical Garden, the only reference read that describes it, gives 0.23 to 0.3 m high and 0.3 to 0.46 m wide. It calls the habit compact and dwarf, though those are the figures it gives the species.
What is the difference between Beyond Blue and Elijah Blue?: The Missouri Botanical Garden says Beyond Blue was found in 2002 as a naturally occurring mutation of Elijah Blue. By its pages, Beyond Blue has thin, cascading leaves of an intense silver-blue and twice the width of Elijah Blue, and rates medium for maintenance where Elijah Blue rates high.
Is Beyond Blue evergreen?: The Missouri Botanical Garden calls it evergreen to semi-evergreen. The same page says the foliage may keep good colour in a mild winter but can brown in a harsh one.
Does Beyond Blue cope with humidity?: The Missouri Botanical Garden says the foliage may decline badly in hot, humid summers, as it says of the species, and that a clump that declines should be cut back. No Australian reference read covers how it behaves in humid districts here.

Sources

GBIF species match API (the species name and family)
Atlas of Living Australia (no species entry under the exact name Festuca glauca; copy of the corrected read)
Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (Festuca glauca 'Casca11', sold as Beyond Blue)
North Carolina State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox (Festuca glauca, the species)
Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (Festuca glauca 'Elijah Blue'), for the width, zone and maintenance comparison
Missouri Botanical Garden Plant Finder (Festuca glauca, the species), for the comparison with the species' size, zones, foliage and maintenance

The growers, sizes and prices above are live and change as lists arrive. Cite this page: HortOS, Beyond Blue (Festuca glauca 'Casca11'), https://au.hortosapp.com/plants/festuca-glauca-casblue-beyond-blue.

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