Andropogon gerardii 'Holy Smoke' is a big bluestem with green to purple, pink and red foliage with golden brown flowers.

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

Carex elata 'Aurea' or Bowles golden sedge is a superlative grass-like plant for sun to shade in average to moist garden soils.

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.

Shapely deep green blades with snowy white edges puts Carex Evercolor 'Everest' at the height of evergreen sedges.

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

Carex 'Everlime' is a sedge with deep green, evergreen leaves edged with lime. Fantastic in pots or the garden.

An evergreen sedge, Carex Evercolor 'Eversheen' has boldly contrasting gold and dark green variegation.

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

Carex socialis is an evergreen sedge for evenly moist to boggy or wet sites with narrow arching foliage.

Cynodon 'Dog Tuff' is a Bermuda grass that is a deep-rooted, dense, low-growing turf grass resistant to foot and dog traffic.

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!

Beyond Gold 'AmiGold' is a golden form of Festuca glauca with the hair-like, textural foliage in tufted mounds.

'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.

Melinus nerviglumis 'Pink Crystal' is the tender ornamental ruby grass with airy pink to creamy seed heads and blue foliage.

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.

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

Miscanthus sinensis 'Graziella' produces silvery white plumes in late summer with leaves turning copper-red in fall.

Miscanthus 'Little Miss' is a dwarf maiden grass with broad foliage with white midribs and striking burgundy and red fall colour.

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 capillaris 'Fast Forward' or pink muhly grass forms clouds of ethereal pink fall flowers earlier than the species.

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