The stipas include some of the most beautiful plants, and tenuissima makes a dense tuft of vertical growth spurting out of the ground, the base of the leaves packed tightly together in a clump. The top growth is nicely topped by the pale summer flowers and sways in the breeze, being slightly more eye-catching than the species parent. It can be grown in all kinds of imaginative ways, in rows with say Heliotropium in the alternating spaces, or encircling a standard (a shrub with a vertical bare leg, and all its growth on top). You can even grow 'Pony Tails' in long, sinuous lines through a border. It needs poor, free-draining ground because if the soil is too rich it tends to flop over.