After warm-season ornamental grasses brown up, there are 3 reasons to cut them back in fall and 1 reason not to. Learn about ...

The majestic miscanthus flutters over the garden as imperiously as the Royal Standard above Buckingham Palace. Panicums form billowing cumulus clouds. Their tiny beaded spikelets in pink and purple ...

Ornamental grasses are graceful standouts in the fall garden. And this time of year the waving plumes of native grasses rival spring's roadside attraction, the bluebonnets. Grasses are exceptionally ...

1. Owing to the difficulty of finding terrestrial ecosystems without mycorrhizas, their influence on plant community dynamics is not easy to discern. This study utilized unreclaimed taconite mine ...

The effect of fire and drought on net photosynthesis, stomatal conductance to water vapor diffusion, leaf water potential, leaf osmotic potential, leaf nitrogen content, and growth were evaluated for ...

Although many gardeners think of grass as that plant that has to mowed every week, there are many species of grass that rival any garden flower for beauty and grace. Many ornamental grasses have ...

Torpedo grass is a weedy invader you do not want mixing in with your turf grass. Even some of the most ardent eco-concerned gardeners are willing to use a chemical herbicide to suppress it. Panicum ...

Every year by mid-summer my ornamental grasses are flopping over and looking messy instead of standing straight up like other people's grasses. Is there anything I can do to keep them from flopping?

IT USED TO BE that the solution for any dull spot in the garden was to pop in a big-leafed plant like an acanthus or rodgersia for contrast. This strategy is still a good one. But over the past decade ...