How To Enhance Your Gardens Fall Foliage Color The intensity of any year’s changing Fall foliage is dependent on many factors, most of them are under Mother Nature’s control. Red & scarlet displays are influenced by weather. Yellow pigments are usually more predictable. The best red displays happen during years of abundant moisture and when…
How To Design With Ornamental Grasses Ornamental grasses bring late summer gardens to life with bloom stalks of white or pink finely textured foliage swishing in the summer breeze. Here are some tips on how to design with Ornamental Grasses. Ornamental grasses grow best in full sun, use very little water and are low…
Three Outstanding Ornamental Grasses Blooming ornamental grasses blowing in the summer breeze add movement and texture to the landscape. Whether used as a large background screen, an anchor in the shrub border, or on a slope to control erosion, grasses add a wispy dimension to the late summer garden. Ornamental grasses give the “feeling that…
How To Trim Ornamental Grasses Here is a demonstration on how to trim ornamental grasses. It’s the end of February and you want to get this done before it warms up enough for new growth to start. This gets the clumps of grass cleaned up so that when the new growth does start, the new…