Before we get into gardening with the ornamental Mexican feather grass, some context will help to underscore the value of landscaping with grasses. Lubbock is in the center of the Llano Estacado. A ...

DEAR GARDEN COACH: I am seeing more plantings of Nassella tenuissima (Mexican feathergrass) around the East Bay and am concerned. My understanding is that this grass has been found to be invasive in ...

As a garden designer and a gardening writer, plants are my business. My yard is filled with the odd and unusual from around the world, yet it's the common Mexican feather grass that gets consistent ...

Do me a favor. Go outside and take a good look at your garden. Got enough flowers? Thought so; after all, it's only June. Got enough contrast between your plant shapes, like spiky vs. mounding stuff, ...

IT USED TO BE that the solution for any dull spot in the garden was to pop in a big-leafed plant like an acanthus or rodgersia for contrast. This strategy is still a good one. But over the past decade ...

It would take many lifetimes to exhaust all the possibilities of plant selection and design options for our gardens. Take kinetic plants, for example. These are species that sway in the wind or even ...

I think the same thing every year around this time – ornamental grasses are my favorite plant. There is much to recommend them: healthy straps in the spring, followed by yellow and beige seed heads ...