This time of year, I have a daily ritual on my walk from the car to my office. As I head up the curving entry path at New England Botanic Garden, I run my hand along the ornamental grasses that line ...

Ornamental grasses are a wonderful addition to the landscape, because they don’t require a lot of care, provide a different texture, attract birds, and many of them produce attractive plumes or seed ...

Clumping grasses are used much the same way as accenting shrubs or ground covers, depending on the height of the grass you select. Low-growing types such as blue grama grass reach no more than 5 or 6 ...

Ornamental grasses are becoming more and more popular in desert landscapes. Their fine-textured foliage and flower plumes provide an attractive contrast with the bold forms of aloes, agaves and cacti.

One of my favorite native plants for landscaping is basket or deer grass, Muhlenbergia rigens. Growing freely by roadsides in our dry foothills, this graceful ornamental grass is a beautiful addition ...

For years most folks clumped grass into one of two categories. There was the kind of grass cows could eat and there was lawn turf fit to whack a ball on. That’s not the case anymore. Ornamental ...

This article discusses ornamental grasses. It does not cover lawn or turf grasses except to say downsize your lawn and turf as much as possible. Lawn and turf grasses are a mono-crop providing zero ...