Grasses

We are specialist growers of Ammophila arenaria - Marram Grass plants from British seed for coastal erosion projects.

Marram Grass is our native coastal grass and it does a fantastic job of helping to stabilise sand dunes protecting coastal defences.

It grows from a network of underground rhizomes which give it a sturdy anchor to the sand and allow it to spread upwards.

Growing in stiff, hardy clumps the foliage is grey green in colour and it produces light brown flowerheads.

Suggested planting density: 5 plants per square metre.

Eriophorum angustifolium - Cottongrass (often referred to as bog cotton) is an evergreen perennial that forms vigorously spreading clumps.  It enjoys the harshest of environments - boggy, open, peat areas where there is little other competition.

Pure white silky haired seed heads form after flowering.  Cottongrass seeds and stems are edible and can used for medicinal purposes.  The fluffy seed heads have also been used as a substitute to stuffing pillows.

It provides an excellent habituate for wildlife and is a pond essential. 

Eriophorum vaginatum – Hares Tail Cottongrass is a native evergreen perennial.

Less well known than the Common Cottongrass, Hares Tail Cottongrass forms compact clumps with silky white tufts that resemble hares tails. Each shoot produces only one head of flowers, unlike the common Cottongass.

Often found in wet heaths, bogs and moors but also happy in a pond margin.

We produce large volumes of this species for peatland restoration projects.