Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garden with blue flowering perennials. - Basieb/Getty Images Most gardeners have some favorite flower colors they gravitate ...

Year after year, these ornamental grasses will produce seeds that grow into new plants in your garden all on their own, with ...

Do you want to consider a different type of plant in your landscape? Something that is drought-tolerant, attractive to wildlife and easy to care for? Consider ornamental grass. Muhly grass Muhly grass ...

At the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley, the alkali sacaton is in full bloom. Its big airy flower heads, which rise above a mass of long, thin grass stalks alongside buckwheat and California ...

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 ...

Clunky electrical boxes can ruin the look of an otherwise beautifully designed front yard. Grasses provide a soft, natural, ...

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 ...

Roberta Cruger is a journalist whose work has appeared in Smithsonian, Robb Report, the Los Angeles Times magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and more. Zoysia grass is a slow-growing, warm-weather ...