Identifying native grasses that grow best in your own yard requires some careful research. Below, we’ll explore some of the most popular and unique native American grasses and their characteristics.

If you’re wanting to introduce texture and movement beyond what flowering plants or perennials can achieve in the garden, ...

The original native lawn planting at Cornell, in 2009, included more than 20 species of plants, with 11 grasses and sedges among them — a designed plant community modeled after natural grass ...

Re “Garden Mastery: California native grasses bring ‘natural’ into home landscapes” (Sept. 14): Thank you so much for the excellent article by Sherry Goldman. I only wish there was spac… ...

Native grasses attract a diversity of insects, which are the primary diets of young birds. Bare ground with a vegetative overstory, provided by native bunch grasses, is necessary for travel corridors.

So the Green-Wood team started planting native flowers and grasses like bee balm, asters, and yarrow. The native plants are maintained carefully by hand — not with mowers — and grow longer and wilder ...

CEDAR FALLS - The University of Northern Iowa turns out teachers like Iowa farmers grow corn - by the bushel full. About one-quarter of UNI's 12,500 students are education majors. It's easy to see ...

Tim Yatko, of Grapevine, is fighting to keep his native grasses. The city wants him to cut them back to meet city code, which requires grass be under six inches in height.

For all the arctic species, this is south for the winter, so we’re in this really, really vital native habitat, “ shared Hrehowsik. In 2022, Brooklyn Bird Club donated $20,000 to support the planting ...

These grasses have crowded out huge swaths of native grasses and sagebrush at low and mid-elevations. They reproduce quickly and then die off quickly, creating fuel ripe for feeding range wildfires.

A new grassroots environmental group is looking to help transform overlooked spaces in Paducah with native grasses and cover ...