A big impact in summer borders for very little effort33 from late summer this low maintenance perennial grass produces spidery panicles of bronze tipped flower45spikes that slowly fade to silver as they mature the tall flower stems rise magnificently above clumps of arching green foliage the stately flower spikes are most numerous following a long hot summer and make a superb addition to cut flower arrangements miscanthus sinensis 39silberspinne39 is lower growing than many of