To a year of fantastic gardening--and new plant shopping opportunities. Coming soon from plantlust.com Don't forget to tuck in a few new grasses. They're look terrific year round, dead or alive. We'll get back to you on the new selling and shopping...
Nassella tenuissima: Articles from The Editorial Side
Grasses Having a Moment
I've been lying. Many a time, I have said, "pppffffftttttt, flowers, they don't do much for me. I like leaves!" And what am I doing now? Screeching to a stop to go photograph and pet the blooms on the grasses. Nothing makes me lament my shady lot quite as much as...
Grasses make me happy
I love the texture. I love the movement. I love how they seed around. For quite a spell (that's what my dad, Clovis, would say it,) I never left a nursery without at least three grass-like plants in hand. I slowed down a bit in my last garden because it...
Musings on Miscanthus
I went thru a period wherein I never left a nursery without a grass or sedge in hand, usually several. I just couldn’t pass them up. I’d pop them in here and there in the garden, and loved watching them wave their wild arms in the breeze. I planted a couple Stipa...
Sexy bark and swaying grass, what else do you need?
This simple garden was a chance discovery after grabbing lunch one day. It features an extremely refined plant selection of golden grasses along with trees and shrubs that have peeling bark, and of there are course multiples of each. Along the public sidewalk there's...