Ornamental grasses are a wonderful addition to the landscape, because they don’t require a lot of care, provide a different texture, attract birds, and many of them produce attractive plumes or seed ...

Ornamental grasses represent an incredibly diverse group of plants that includes everything from low mounding ground covers ...

After the discovery of the Americas in the 15th century, Europeans brought back many types of plants that gardeners take for granted today, including potatoes, sunflowers, and tomatoes. Pampas grass ...

The colors, lusters, and forms of ornamental grasses are an interesting addition to any garden. In an area where the more subtle nature of our background colors is an important consideration in garden ...

Ornamental grasses are redefining the scope of modern design by adding graceful texture and sweeping movement that no other perennial can offer. Ornamental grasses also have the longest season of ...

Key Points For full sun locations, pick switchgrass, pink muhly grass, prairie dropseed, and little bluestem.Grasses for ...

Ornamental grasses and their grasslike cousins have firmly established themselves as key elements in the modern garden, and their ranks keep swelling. That may be because ornamental grasses offer many ...

When winter's icy breeze sweeps across the countryside and garden birds ruffle their feathers on bare branches, most plants will have slipped into a deep slumber. Most – but not all. Evergreens such ...

I have to admit, this article is about one of my pet peeves, plant butchering. I hope to educate homeowners and commercial landscapers about how the specific growth habits of different plants should ...

Ornamental grasses have become quite popular in the Minnesota landscape. Native prairie grasses that once covered a great portion of western and southern Minnesota are now having major influences on ...

You probably didn't know this, but Marcia and I have something in common with J.R.R. Tolkien. I mean, beyond thinking it was a terrible idea to turn a short book like "The Hobbit" into three movies (I ...