Calamagrostis brachytricha is a superlative clump-forming grass with bright green leaves and thick plumes of silver-pink.

Carex flacca 'Blue Zinger' is an evergreen sedge with startling, steel-blue, pleated foliage.

Carex 'Feather Falls' is a gorgeous striped weeping sedge with narrow variegated foliage and plumes of feathery flowers.

The superlative evergreen sedge, Carex Evercolor 'Everillo', emerges lime green, then turns to golden yellow.

Carex pensylvanica is a fine-textured sedge for shadier spots, including dry shade, as an underplanting or lawn alternative.

Festuca 'Cool as Ice' produces clumps of fine blue-green foliage whose blue intensifies as the season progresses.

Festuca 'Beyond Blue' is one of the bluest of all fescues and for that matter all grasses!

'All Gold' is a full on golden grass for the shade garden. Hakonechloa are the best grasses for the shade.

Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' is hands down the best shade grass. No one should live without it!

Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron' is one of the most dramatic of grasses with brightly coloured red and green foliage.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Encore' is an early-blooming and reblooming maiden grass.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Ferner Osten' has dark red and pink plumes and striking bright copper and red fall foliage autumn.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Flamingo' is a distinctive maiden grass with slightly pendant, light pink flower plumes.

Gold Bar' has some of the boldest variegation in Miscanthus sinensis.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus' has narrow green leaves with a silver midrib which form a substantial, rounded, arching clumps.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Morning Light' has very narrow green leaves with white marginal variegation giving a silvery appearance.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Rigoletto' is a gorgeous variegated maiden grass.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Tiger Tail' is a tall maiden grass with horizontal bands of yellow and bronze late summer flowers.

Miscanthus x giganteus is a giant clumping hybrid grass that grows to fourteen feet every year like a columnar fountain of foliage.

Muhlenbergia 'Undaunted' or ruby muhly grass offers clouds of ruby red flowers in late summer and fall.

Panicum virgatum 'Blood Brothers' is a sport of 'Heavy Metal' with red tipped, blue-green foliage and red to tan seed heads.

Panicum virgatum 'Niagara Falls' is a dramatic switch grass with arching powder blue foliage and creamy seedheads.

Panicum 'Northwind' is a Perennial Plant of the Year forming stately bluish green exclamation points for the garden.

Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Lemon Squeeze' is a fountain grass with chartreuse-golden foliage and copper seedheads.

Pennisetum orientale 'Karley Rose' has great dusty rose flowers that lighten to silver through the summer.