Tough and tenacious, Chionochloa flavicans provides shapely foliage all year round and elegant pale creamy-green flower plumes in mid-summer. Its a great plant to use for low maintenance gardens, grouped among other easy-care subjects such as Carex testacea, Astelia Silver Spear, Clianthus Kaka King and Brachyglottis Otari Cloud. Chionochloa flavicans is wind and drought tolerant and is a superb plant to use as a cover on exposed banks and other tough places. When grown on a wall or bank you get to look up into the arching flower plumes, which makes them even more appealing.