Invite a graceful giant into your garden. Ornamental grasses are known to bring texture, softness and movement to the mixed border, but one of the most striking and unusual of ornamental grasses is so ...

Discover beautiful easy growing ornamental grasses including Chionochloa rubra Stipa tenuissima and Stipa gigantea while ...

What: Stipa gigantea is a statuesque grass. Tufts of 18-inch foliage explode with emerging seed heads in early summer. The seed heads grow 6 to 8 feet and hold large teardrop-like seeds that dry to a ...

Punctuation in a garden is important. To prevent borders becoming static and lifeless, they need to have rhythm and movement - and the giant oat grass, Stipa gigantea, can be comma, full stop or big ...

Given the choice between ‘Blond Ambition’ and ‘Purple Stipa,’ which would you choose? These are not the names of rock bands, but rather California native grasses that make your garden rock. They ...

This shimmering grass has platinum-silver ostrich-feather awns that are so soft and silky they look as though they have been straightened with hair irons. When a breeze strikes, they toss and turn, ...

When it comes to ornamental grasses (my favourite group of plants) I am at risk of hyperbole with almost every utterance. But there is one grass that really does rank among the finest of all garden ...

Many kinds of ornamental grasses come into their own at this time of the gardening year, adding long-lasting structure, texture and interest in the form of their sculptural foliage, long-lasting ...