2:53 p.m. Feb. 5, 2024: This article has been updated to correct the spelling of Jim Baird’s name. Tearing out your lawn can be a tough decision, especially if you have children or dogs who love to ...

Native grasses can be used in a landscape either as specimen plants or for a bluegrass lawn alternative or to create a native prairie landscape. While a native grass lawn or prairie landscape is not ...

The airy effect of baby’s breath is also found in flower arrangements in the form of one of our choicest native grasses ” Indian rice grass, which is a great native landscape feature. A fairly common ...

Prairie dropseed, or Sporobolus heterolepis, is a beautiful and showy grass native to the prairies of Ohio. Its fountain of delicate leaves can add a certain lyrical quality to a garden as they sway ...

LITTLE ROCK — Do you want quail on your land? There is a starting point, according to wildlife biologists, and it’s in the grass. Fifty interested landowners attended a recent workshop on quail that ...

Re:“Should Colorado mandate small lawns?” Jan. 19 Vincent Carroll column. Vincent Carroll’s column summarized state Sen. Ellen Roberts’ proposed bill to mandate lawn size in Colorado. Her intent, of ...

At one time not too long ago, vegetables and flowers properly belonged in your garden beds, and grasses and suchlike were relegated to the rest of the yard. That is certainly the way we started off in ...

Native grasses play an important role in the world. One that is unseen. These grasses do it all underground with their roots. Native grasses with their deep roots have the capacity to filter water.

Margo and Larry Newhouse knew the "mangy" lawn had to go, as well as the rest of the water-sucking landscape at their midtown home. So what did they put in instead? Well, for part of the landscape, ...

Grasses put motion and music in a garden. A summer breeze can set the slender leaves or dangling flower heads dancing and rustling. A winter snowfall can outline the still-standing stalks like ...

Ganalay and guli are species of native grasses—used as a food source and ground into a flour—that used to thrive on the black ...

Native grasses can be used in a landscape either as specimen plants or for a bluegrass lawn alternative or to create a native prairie landscape. While a native grass lawn or prairie landscape is not ...