Key Points Cut back warm-season ornamental grasses in fall for a cleaner winter look.Tie tall grasses into bundles before ...

NO GARDEN IS complete without at least a few deciduous ornamental grasses. These elegant, flowing plants are usually drought-tolerant, generally pest-free and require little care. Impossible to shear ...

Ornamental grasses make excellent screen plants to hide unsightly propane tanks and air conditioners, or for privacy around patios and decks. They develop faster than shrubs. Professional designers ...

Every time the ornamental grasses start flowering in summer and fall, I fall in love with them all over again. I even love the invasive fountain grass because their abundant blooms, ruffled in our ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Leaf tissue of the panicoid grass Pennisetum purpureum (Schum) and of the chloridoid grass Muhlenbergia montana (Hitchcock) were fractionated ...

Some plants call out to be touched, and fluffy pennisetum grasses are certainly one of the most tactile. Last year I grew a large specimen of P. setaceum in a pot by the front door at our seaside ...

Ornamental grasses are graceful standouts in the fall garden. And this time of year the waving plumes of native grasses rival spring's roadside attraction, the bluebonnets. Grasses are exceptionally ...

I am a huge fan of using grasses in my landscape designs. They offer color and textural qualities that enhance other plant material. The positives of ornamental grasses are they have an ultra-fine ...

Ferns are some of the most primitive and oldest plants on earth, having existed for over 300 million years. They don’t produce flowers and they reproduce from spores rather than seeds. In the spring ...

For everything you ever wanted to know about ornamental grasses, I recommend perusing “Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes” by Neil Lucas (Timber Press). At the outset, Lucas extols the ‘seasonality’ ...