Invite a graceful giant into your garden. Ornamental grasses are known to bring texture, softness and movement to the mixed border, but one of the most striking and unusual of ornamental grasses is so ...

Given the choice between ‘Blond Ambition’ and ‘Purple Stipa,’ which would you choose? These are not the names of rock bands, but rather California native grasses that make your garden rock. They ...

What: Stipa gigantea is a statuesque grass. Tufts of 18-inch foliage explode with emerging seed heads in early summer. The seed heads grow 6 to 8 feet and hold large teardrop-like seeds that dry to a ...

Ornamental grasses and their grasslike cousins have firmly established themselves as key elements in the modern garden, and their ranks keep swelling. That may be because ornamental grasses offer many ...

One of the most impressive displays of ornamental grasses I have ever seen was in an estate garden where massive stands rose majestically as background plants and smaller tufts intermingled with ...

When it comes to ornamental grasses (my favourite group of plants) I am at risk of hyperbole with almost every utterance. But there is one grass that really does rank among the finest of all garden ...

This shimmering grass has platinum-silver ostrich-feather awns that are so soft and silky they look as though they have been straightened with hair irons. When a breeze strikes, they toss and turn, ...

Three years ago I sowed a packet of seed of the beautiful, ethereal feather grass, Stipa tenuissima. At first they appeared as hair-like seedlings but by that autumn the small plants were growing in ...

About 20 years ago there were very few people growing grasses in their borders but they have become justly popular over the past decade, and I now love them and try and use them in as many situations ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Die neue, aus Mittel-Bayern (Deutschland) beschriebene Art Stipa bavarica Martinovský et Scholz wird in ihrer systematischen Stellung ...

There's not enough awareness of the potential benefits Australia's native grasses can bring to farming systems, according to one native grass expert. While the majority, by area, of grazing in ...