Planting ornamental grasses make a big impact in the backyard, with many varieties hardy and easy to grow, providing year-round interest. From tall and wispy varieties that sway beautifully in the ...

Flowers, shrubs and plants are obvious additions to the garden, but where is the love for ornamental grasses? Ornamental grasses make for a striking addition to any garden, offering texture, movement ...

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 and quizzical question marks that help ...

Ornamental grasses refer to both true grasses and plants that have a grass-like appearance, such as sedges, that are used for similar purposes in gardens. The foliage of ornamental grasses provides ...

Tips to keep your grasses thriving in your garden. Deb W. of Santa Rosa asks: I have quite a few ornamental grasses in my landscape and could use a few tips to keep them looking their best. I have ...

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 ...

Normally, when people consider the kinds of plants they want to put in their gardens, grass is not their first thought. However, landscapers and gardeners looking for something different and dramatic ...

Wherever you go now there are ornamental grasses, in borders among shrubs and herbaceous perennials, as specimens, in pots and sometimes there are borders and even whole gardens dedicated to them. I ...

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

Many gardeners consider the term "ornamental grass" an oxymoron. To be honest, some of our worst garden weeds are grasses. Crabgrass, torpedograss, wild bermudagrass and Johnsongrass are persistent, ...

In the Shida Evaluation Garden, visitors get a first-hand look at the latest plant varieties being trialled for their ...

Deciduous grasses that have lost all the colour in their leaves should be cut down close to the ground at the end of winter, ...