WOULDN’T IT BE wonderful to find a plant that exhibits not only handsome foliage and attractive flowers, but also eye-catching fall color and showy seed heads that enhance its charm and appeal for ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If every garden is a poem, ornamental grasses are punctuation. Short, squat and round. Tall, reaching or curly. They serve as the periods, exclamation points ...

Fall puts on its finery when the ornamental grasses appear – their plumes shimmering and shining in the autumn sun. Ornamental grasses are practical in the home garden because birds and small mammals ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The ornamental grass was always greener on the other side of the world, according to horticulturist Kelly Grummons. But that’s changing as Colorado’s native ...

Mention ornamental grasses, and most folks think of the towering fountains of foliage used for privacy screens, or bold, upright focal points nestled among more traditional perennials and shrubs. Over ...

If you have a transition area in your garden or landscape, a trouble zone, bare space or no-man’s land, and need a suitable plant, think ornamental grasses. Many attractive native grasses are hardy, ...

This time of year, I have a daily ritual on my walk from the car to my office. As I head up the curving entry path at New England Botanic Garden, I run my hand along the ornamental grasses that line ...

This article discusses ornamental grasses. It does not cover lawn or turf grasses except to say downsize your lawn and turf as much as possible. Lawn and turf grasses are a mono-crop providing zero ...

I have seen some different tall, graceful stands of grasses used various ways in yards around town. What are they and are they difficult to grow? There are literally dozens of ornamental grasses which ...