Garden Goods Direct | Purple Love Grass

Eragrostis spectabilis or Purple Love Grass is a warm-season ornamental grass with a phenomenal range of seasonal color and texture. In the spring the petite plants form a loose open tuft of blue-green colored blades. In the summer months, the plant is topped by attractive fluffy clouds of rosy-purple. during the fall months, the leaves develop a bronzy red color. This “lovely” little grass thrives in sunny spots with poor dry soil. Purple Love grass is widely used by internationally renowned garden designer Piet Oudolf and was listed as one of his “100 Must-Have Plants” in Gardens Illustrated magazine. The species was extensively planted in Oudolf’s designs for New York City’s Highline and Chicago’s Lurie Garden.