Plant in full sun to light shade and water regularly. It is cold hardy to USDA zone 5-6 (-20 °F) with some mulch protection required in zone 5. A very nice fine textured cultivar that is great in mass, as an individual specimen or planted in a larger container.

Miscanthus sinensis 'Adagio' was selected by the grassman Kurt Bluemel of Bluemel Nursery in Baldwin, Maryland. It is often compared to and noted as superior to the popular dwarf cultivar Miscanthus sinensis 'Yaku Jima' and is considerably smaller than Miscanthus sinensis 'Gracillimus', which also has weepy fine textured foliage. The cultivar name Is said to come from the Italian musical phrase 'ad agio' meaning "at ease" a term used to signify slow music movements. The name Miscanthus was given to this genus of perennial grasses native to Japan and the Philippines by the 19th century Swedish botanist Nils Johan Andersson. It comes from the Greek words 'miskos' which means "stem" or "stalk" and 'anthos', meaning "flowers" in reference to the seed heads having stalked spikelets. The specific epithet is the Latin word signifying the plant is from China. We have grown this nice smaller cultivar of Miscanthus sinensis since 2002. 

The information displayed on this page about Miscanthus sinensis 'Adagio' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.