Enhance your garden with the beauty of Nassella Tenuissima, a stunning ornamental grass. Discover top ideas to incorporate this graceful grass into your landscape for a mesmerizing effect.
Also known as Nassella tenuissima, Mexican feathergrass is a common ornamental and is growing here in a garden at the top of Calton Hill, The City of Edinburgh, Scotland. This ornamental grass can escape and establish as a colonizing bunchgrass. Diffuse but dense panicles and long slender lemma awns render the feathery appearance of the seed heads. Native to Northern Mexico and southwestern U.S.A but widely established elsewhere.
A friend once told me over a beer and frog legs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Travel is not about the places – it’s about the people you meet. So true. Now home after several whirlwind weeks on the road, I'm taking a breather to retrace my steps. It all started with a visit to Baltimore, Maryland in late July for my first annual Perennial Plant Association (PPA) Symposium. Next, my partner Troy and I buckled up for a 10-day road trip to Québec driving out along the silver-laced shores of the St…
Walking through the Sunset Park district of Santa Monica one discovers plants like this. Many front yards display non-traditional, diverse and water-wise plantings that adapt well to the arid conditions of Southern California. This garden has several ornamental grasses arranged with geometric simplicity.
Early spring is the season of hope: for the most beautiful garden ever. And you can have that. You also can lay the most charming front path in the history
This is the first of a series of posts I intend writing during the winter. I thought that while the weather is not so good to be outside enjoying the garden I would spend some time pondering the ef…