Planting blue fescue is easy, even for beginner gardeners. Follow these simple steps to help establish blue fescue in your garden or yard. Choose a sunny spot: Select a well-draining area of your ...

A truly versatile perennial grass, blue fescue (Festuca glauca) has an eye-catching blue hue that lasts all year. With its clump-forming habit, blue fescue forms uniform balls of foliage topped with ...

Discover 5 beautiful ornamental grasses to add to your home garden, from colourful Blue Fescue to elegant Pink Muhly Grass ...

These are names most golfers recognize because they are turf grasses — good for fairways, greens and lawns. It’s visual appeal. Many of these grasses are hardy and low-maintenance, requiring little ...

Considered common and dull, ornamental grasses spent decades locked out of well-tended gardens. “Twenty-five years ago, you wouldn’t have seen grasses in landscapes,” said Debra Knapke, the Columbus ...

A time-lapse of blue fescue ornamental grass growing from seed to mature clumps.

Q.: I read your article in mid-May about growing grass in the shade and was confused by your comment that "Kentucky bluegrass (which is the only major type we grow that does well in shade...)" I have ...

Do you want to consider a different type of plant in your landscape? Something that is drought-tolerant, attractive to wildlife and easy to care for? Consider ornamental grass. Muhly grass Muhly grass ...

Blue fescue, a compact and drought-tolerant ornamental grass, works in many garden settings and looks beautiful year-round.

Dainty diminutive Festuca glauca makes a tight mound of steely blue, needle-like blades and is one of the most tactile of the evergreen grasses. A new flush of blue-grey leaves appears by early spring ...