I really want to grow it in a small bed on the Southwest side of my house, where it will get full sun from noon until about an hour before sundown. I had a bugbane "Hillside Black Beauty" there this summer--plunked down when I raided my old gardens--and it had to be moved because it got too much sun, if that tells you anything about the spot. I'm just wondering whether the bluestem will get enough sun.

My other thoughts for that bed include some yarrow (probably Walter Funcke, for the terracotta colors but shorter size) and maybe a "Sedona," dark red or purple coleus. I already have some bergenia cordifolia "Bressingham Ruby," allium senescens glaucum, and a large ornamental rock there. Both the rock and the house bricking in that area are a dark beige to terracotta color themselves.