Andropogon 'Blackhawks' is a big, bold grass with deep purple leaf tips and burgundy red inflorescences in mid summer all becoming purple black in fall.

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

Carex morrowii 'Ice Dance' is a beautiful sedge with broad green leaves edged with creamy white forming low, slowly spreading mounds.

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

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

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

Deschampsia cespitosa 'Northern Lights' produces wonderful mounds of green and cream variegated foliage flushed with pink in spring.

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

Hakonechloa '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.

Libertia perigrinans has cool orangey-green, erect, iris-like foliage and white lightly fragrant flowers.

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

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 '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 'Purpurascens' is an early blooming cultivar with foliage turning to flaming orange and purple in autumn.

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

Panicum virgatum 'Heavy Metal' is a dramatic switch grass forming vertical pillars of metallic blue.

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

Pennisetum 'Ginger Love' is a showy fountain grass with thick dark-red plumes over green mounding foliage.

'Hameln' is the oldest cultivar of Pennisetum alopecuroides and a useful dwarf with mid green foliage.

Pennisetum 'Red Head' blooms earlier than other cultivars with extra large plumes in tones of red, smoky pink and purple.