Here are some fun facts about ornamental grasses:
Ornamental grasses are low-maintenance, offer continuous garden interest with unique textures and colors, and provide wildlife benefits like food and shelter for birds, while also being highly adaptable and drought-tolerant. They add motion, sound, and architectural qualities to landscapes and can be dried for various decorative uses
Beauty & Design
- Year-Round Interest:Ornamental grasses provide seasonal beauty with colorful foliage and flowers, and the attractive forms of the dried grasses and seed heads offer interest throughout the fall and winter.
- Texture and Motion:Grasses add a unique sense of movement, sound, and texture to a garden, swaying gracefully in the breeze and adding drama.
- Architectural Quality:Their strongly linear, yet flexible, foliage gives gardens an architectural quality and can be used in various ways, from groundcovers to privacy screens.
- Color and Versatility:Foliage can range in color from deep greens and blues to vibrant reds and purples, and the inflorescences (flower heads) add further splashes of color.