Ornamental grasses provide visual interest, but their function doesn't end there. Choose the right varieties, and you'll get ...

A thorough, scholarly handbook that's valuable for identification and information is the "Timber Press Pocket Guide to Ornamental Grasses" by Rick Darke (2004, $19.95). Joel M. Lerner is president ...

Ornamental grasses are a low-maintenance, visually appealing, and welcome addition to home gardens. They can be attractive ...

The plant group we call “ornamental grass” includes true grasses and grass-like sedges and rushes. Species exist that are appropriate for a variety of environments and planting conditions ...

there are many species of grass that rival any garden flower for beauty and grace. Many ornamental grasses have attractive form, foliage, flowers and color-or even all of the above. Grasses can be ...

Ornamental grasses deserve a love poem. Once you start looking into all the varieties of color, shape, height and benefits to ...

Deciduous ornamental grasses add interest in all seasons ... For those preferring a lower-growing species, give pennisetum (fountain grasses) a try. Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Little Bunny ...

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 ...

Ornamental grasses are also practical in the home garden ... As larval hosts for many species of skipper butterflies, the plants should remain uncut over the winter, until new growth appears ...

Every year by mid-summer my ornamental grasses are flopping over and looking ... is more upright than the general switchgrass species. But beyond the variety you pick in the first place, there ...

I love ornamental grasses and include them in many of my own designs and also had a plethora of different species in my previous garden and intend to include lots in my new garden in Lincolnshire.