Planting blue fescue is easy, even for beginner gardeners. Follow these simple steps to help establish blue fescue in your garden or yard. Choose a sunny spot: Select a well-draining area of your ...

A truly versatile perennial grass, blue fescue (Festuca glauca) has an eye-catching blue hue that lasts all year. With its clump-forming habit, blue fescue forms uniform balls of foliage topped with ...

Considered common and dull, ornamental grasses spent decades locked out of well-tended gardens. “Twenty-five years ago, you wouldn’t have seen grasses in landscapes,” said Debra Knapke, the Columbus ...

They glisten in the sun, sway and shimmer in the breeze, and provide year-round interest. This is the grace and beauty of ornamental grasses. Planted as a sweep, they serve as a low border or a ...

Adding some boulders to your garden is another easy way to take up space without adding water requirements, and they go great with ornamental grasses. (Contributed) As the desire for less maintenance ...

Q:What can you tell me about pampas grass? Should it be cut down in the fall or left standing? Richard Backer, Muskegon A: Pampas grass is one of many ornamental grasses that are wonderful in our ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Provided by Designscapes Colorado Ornamental grasses such as "Karl Foerster" feather reed grass, maiden grass and Blue Avena grass make structural statements ...

Forever on the lookout for low-water, low-maintenance plant possibilities, I have been happily surprised with the spread of blue oat grass in my own garden and have been wondering lately about its ...

Ornamental grasses get no respect, according to some garden experts. "People are captivated by plants with big, showy, colorful flowers like peonies and iris," said Mary Hockenberry Meyer, professor ...

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 ...

I have to admit, this article is about one of my pet peeves, plant butchering. I hope to educate homeowners and commercial landscapers about how the specific growth habits of different plants should ...