Ornamental grasses are an often-overlooked group of herbaceous perennials that thrive here. They can add beauty to your landscape with minimal effort. Because of their ease of care and reliability, ...

Ornamental grasses bring to mind the wind blowing across the prairie, creating a living sea of softness. One in particular stands out with its cloud of pink seed blooms moving above green blades. Pink ...

Ornamental grasses are tough, drought-tolerant plants that can add structure, texture and color to any garden. They come straight and tall, wide and wispy, even short and spiky. Some also add two ...

It’s been a long, beautiful fall this year. The cool weather tripped the trees to color up and then hold their leaves for a beautiful show of reds, oranges and yellows. Tree leaves aren’t the only ...

Driving north on I-85 toward Lexington, you may observe colorful white and pink grasses planted on the roadsides and the medians. The mass of pink or white grass plantings are muhly grasses ...

Containers are great for gardeners with little space, but they are equally useful in a big garden that needs a focal point. For the past several years, Wave petunias, coleuses, sweet potato vines and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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Few plants rival the breathtaking beauty of purple muhly, or Muhlenbergia capillaris, in the fall — clouds of purple wisps waving in the autumn sun, according to Helen Hamilton, past president of the ...

There are many things to consider when designing a garden. Color is what immediately comes to mind, then scale and plant size. However, texture creates the overall feeling. Much of the emotive impact ...

This story was written for our sponsor, North Carolina Sod Producers Association. There is nothing that complements a house more than a manicured lawn of green grass sprawled before it. But the ...

Colorado's semi-arid climate and high residential outdoor water usage make grass lawns costly and environmentally unfriendly. Homeowners can replace grass lawns with xeriscaping, starting with ...