At California’s Hedgerow Farms, specialists produce seeds to revegetate burned areas, reestablish wetlands, and transform ...

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.

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 ...

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

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.

Native grasses usually require less water than traditional turf lawns because their roots grow much deeper — up to 10 feet deep in some cases — allowing them to find water stored in the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sand cordgrass, Spartina bakeri, is another native grass that can grow 3 to 5 feet tall and wide, and can be used in mass plantings. Sand cordgrass does best in full sun and sandy soils.

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.