While some like the look of Japanese bloodgrass in a landscape, this plant is harmful to the ecosystem. Fortunately, we have some better alternatives.

Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’) is a real showstopper in the fall garden ... vertical interest and movement to borders, prairie gardens, or naturalized areas.

One such project is frost seeding native grasses and forbs. Here’s why you should brave the cold and consider sowing your seeds this winter. If you think about how a native prairie works, many of the ...

ROCHESTER — A skid loader caught fire in an Eyota field around 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, engulfing 10 acres of prairie grass. According to a release from the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office ...

Thousands of years of prairie grass growth, death and decomposition ... but now we are getting bigger rain events where six inches fall and that hits the soil on farms.” ...

In fall, adults may invade fields of winter wheat ... Less attractive grasses include blue grama, buffalograss, sand dropseed, needleandthread, prairie sandreed, and Kentucky bluegrass. The latter ...

By Bruce Spangenberg Ornamental grasses have surged in popularity among gardeners, as has using native plants in gardens and ...

The second best time is mid-October, when the summer grasses turn red for the prairie’s version of fall colors. Hikes in the morning and evening will afford you beautiful light and a little escape ...

The program aims to restore four acres of old pasture area into a native prairie containing several Ohio indigenous grasses and 20 forbs species. The first survey taken in May of 2007 showed a ...

In a desert prairie of Texas, crop contents consisted of 48 percent buffalograss, 21 percent blue grama, 19 percent burrograss, 5 percent fall witchgrass, 5 percent Muhlenbergia sp., and 2 percent of ...