Terraced Hillside Landscaping Nobody enjoys wrestling with a steep lawn. Transform this hillside with terraced planting beds ...

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 ...

It’s been a long, beautiful fall this year. The cool weather tripped the trees to color up and then hold their leaves for a beautiful show of reds, oranges and yellows. Tree leaves aren’t the only ...

Grasses can fill large or small spaces in any type of landscape with dramatic color, texture and movement that changes with the seasons. Ornamental grasses are adaptable and are easy to grow. Grasses ...

Ornamental grasses are one hot garden plant right now, and when you look around Spokane, more and more plantings of grasses are appearing every year. For members of the Spokane-based Independent ...

I love the enthusiasm of my readers. Thank all of you for helping me to get excited about working in the yard. A few years ago one of my readers asked me a question about dividing and cutting down a ...

• Grasses don’t need to be separated into a designated “grass garden.” Place grasses among other perennials where they can be a border, a backdrop or a vertical element among other plants. Create a ...

Nothing spruces up a garden like ornamental grasses. If you want them to stay healthy through the year, though, you'll need ...

Looking to give your fall and winter landscape a visual boost? Grow ornamental grasses. The movement alone of these low-maintenance, easy to grow grasses will give you a big bang for your landscaping ...

Little bluestem, prairie dropseed, Indian grass and other native ornamental grasses are good options for the Kansas landscape because of their drought tolerance, resistance to pests and overall low ...

Maiden grass spreads prolifically through wind-dispersed seeds and vigorous underground rhizomes, making it hard to remove ...