Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mention the word “grass” and most people still imagine expanses of shorn Kentucky bluegrass, the staple of iconic American lawns. Ornamental grasses, however ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Provided by Designscapes Colorado Ornamental grasses such as "Karl Foerster" feather reed grass, maiden grass and Blue Avena grass make structural statements ...

Jennifer Causey Spires of Liatris spicata and Liatris pycnostachya add vertical accents to the meadow. A local nursery can help you find the perennial grass that works best for your climate; the ...

Ornamental grasses are an often-overlooked group of herbaceous perennials that thrive here. They can add beauty to your landscape with minimal effort. Because of their ease of care and reliability, ...

Ornamental grasses are dramatic plantings, providing depth, texture and color to your landscape. And they're pretty easy to grow, have few pest and disease problems, and are an excellent choice for ...

This rainbow of shades complements your pickier plants—without extending your to-do list. Jennifer Causey Fast-growing, low-maintenance perennial grasses, many of which change color in the fall, ...

For years most folks clumped grass into one of two categories. There was the kind of grass cows could eat and there was lawn turf fit to whack a ball on. That’s not the case anymore. Ornamental ...

While flowers most often play the role of show queens in our gardens, don’t discount the wow factor of native and adapted ornamental grasses in Central Texas. Even colorful, blooming gardens need ...

Ornamental grasses get heavy use in Pennsylvania yards for good reason, not the least of which is because they don’t die easily and deer don’t eat them. But these trouble-free, winter-hardy, ...

There are many sounds that bring me back to carefree childhood autumns – the crunching of leaves underfoot as we made our way home from school, the crackling of leaf-fueled, curbside bonfires burning ...

I find the use of ornamental grasses in the Northwest to be a bit perplexing. Magazine articles and books seem to constantly boast about them. Designing locally, I am not finding this to be true with ...