Unique Features: Elijah Blue Fescue is another cultivar of the European native dwarf grass.  It has been around longer than Boulder Blue Fescue and has a little lighter silvery blue color and somewhat longer flower stems. It is a cool season small semi-evergreen clumping grass.  In our area we’re on the tan side of semi-evergreen.  This is a cool season grass that begins growing in later April and in early will do best with a trim and tidy up, sometimes the rabbits will do this for you but the deer don’t bother it.  The wheat like sterile seed heads  extend 3’’ to 6’’ above the center portion of the foliage and start out a blue green color changing to tan.  The seed heads are usually trimmed off leaving just the tidy blue mound.  This grass will die back in the center after several years.  Dividing the clump every 2 to 3 years will avoid this issue.  Elijah Blue can be used as an accent or mass planted as a ground cover.