Before we get into gardening with the ornamental Mexican feather grass, some context will help to underscore the value of landscaping with grasses. Lubbock is in the center of the Llano Estacado. A ...

Many Californians appear to be taking up Gov. Jerry Brown’s call for the removal of 50 million square feet of lawn energetically and enthusiastically. But all that energy may be misplaced: As ...

Do me a favor. Go outside and take a good look at your garden. Got enough flowers? Thought so; after all, it's only June. Got enough contrast between your plant shapes, like spiky vs. mounding stuff, ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I am seeing more plantings of Nassella tenuissima (Mexican feathergrass) around the East Bay and am concerned. My understanding is that this grass has been found to be invasive in ...

It would take many lifetimes to exhaust all the possibilities of plant selection and design options for our gardens. Take kinetic plants, for example. These are species that sway in the wind or even ...

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 ...

I think the same thing every year around this time – ornamental grasses are my favorite plant. There is much to recommend them: healthy straps in the spring, followed by yellow and beige seed heads ...

As a garden designer and a gardening writer, plants are my business. My yard is filled with the odd and unusual from around the world, yet it's the common Mexican feather grass that gets consistent ...

Given the right conditions, some seemingly mild-mannered plants can become garden thugs, invading entire yards and even moving on to the rest of the neighborhood. We may all have heard stories about ...

Sometimes Mother Nature has a better idea, and it's good to let her play. In a small patch of ground between the sidewalk and the street - an urban garden hinterland a saner person might have just ...