This native grass spreads through underground rhizomes, so you'll want to make sure you have space for it. Hardy in USDA zones 5 through 9, this clump-forming plant is low-maintenance and easy to ...

Identifying native grasses that grow best in your own yard requires some careful research. ... This vigorous grass combines ...

Seed at rates of 3-5 pounds of seed per 1,000 square feet and then rake the seeded lawn with the back of a metal rake to work the seeds into the holes. Plant plugs in a grid layout on 12-inch ...

To that end, the native lawn team delays mowing until after seed is collected, pushing their annual maintenance to late July or early August. The bigger, 40-million-acre end game is ever top of mind.

McNelis has also had groups attend Borderlands workshops, wanting to learn how to start seed banks. She hopes that the native seed and plant groups in Arizona become a model to reproduce anywhere ...

First Nations farmers are reviving hundreds of native grasses, including kangaroo grass. (Landline: Fiona Broom)Mr Harris has made flour out of wattle seed, as well as Mitchell, button and ...

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.

Those efforts support regrowth of native big bluestem grass, Joe Pye weed, old world goldenrod, silky rye, bottlebrush grass, nodding wild onion and Indian grass. Besides nurturing native grasses ...