Ornamental grasses such as "Karl Foerster" feather reed grass, maiden grass and Blue Avena grass make structural statements in containers, borders or flower beds. Ornamental grasses have grown on home ...

They glisten in the sun, sway and shimmer in the breeze, and provide year-round interest. This is the grace and beauty of ornamental grasses. Planted as a sweep, they serve as a low border or a ...

Adding some boulders to your garden is another easy way to take up space without adding water requirements, and they go great with ornamental grasses. (Contributed) As the desire for less maintenance ...

Ornamental grasses get no respect, according to some garden experts. "People are captivated by plants with big, showy, colorful flowers like peonies and iris," said Mary Hockenberry Meyer, professor ...

For most of us, grass is something your parents made you mow, usually on the hottest day of the year using a push mower with dull blades. Uphill. We might have wondered why we bothered growing the ...

At the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley, the alkali sacaton is in full bloom. Its big airy flower heads, which rise above a mass of long, thin grass stalks alongside buckwheat and California ...

When we think of grass, we envision a well-manicured lawn, right? Well grass, if left to grow to seed would look very different; and it is these differences that have caught the eye of many people.

In springtime, when flowers are busting out all over, ornamental grass is the last thing on the mind of most gardeners. After all, a clump of sturdy but unremarkable-looking blades struggles to ...