Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’) is a real showstopper in the fall garden ... vertical interest and movement to borders, prairie gardens, or naturalized areas.

By Bruce Spangenberg Ornamental grasses have surged in popularity among gardeners, as has using native plants in gardens and ...

One such project is frost seeding native grasses and forbs. Here’s why you should brave the cold and consider sowing your seeds this winter. If you think about how a native prairie works, many of the ...

In a desert prairie of Texas, crop contents consisted of 48 percent buffalograss, 21 percent blue grama, 19 percent burrograss, 5 percent fall witchgrass, 5 percent Muhlenbergia sp., and 2 percent of ...

The second best time is mid-October, when the summer grasses turn red for the prairie’s version of fall colors. Hikes in the morning and evening will afford you beautiful light and a little escape ...

We’ve come here for the flowers. Five adults and a small child — all prairie-dwellers, all happy to be out of the car and moving through knee-high grasses. Blossoms of yarrow, bergamot ...

In fall, adults may invade fields of winter wheat ... Less attractive grasses include blue grama, buffalograss, sand dropseed, needleandthread, prairie sandreed, and Kentucky bluegrass. The latter ...