The 2026 Perennial Plant of the Year is Blackhawks big bluestem, a cultivar of one of the dominant grasses of the North American tallgrass prairies.

One trend is the rise of ‘soft modernism’. It is softly structured, focuses on wild planting and is a move away from ...

Have you ever found small footprints on your patio during the night or tiny droppings near your flower beds and thought it was just an illusion? Well, it may not be an illusion after all. Your lawn ...

From frothy seedheads to swaying stems to spikey clumps of foliage, ornamental grasses offer loads of winter interest. Call on large upright grasses, such as the native big bluestem, as well as ...

Dear Helen: I have a series of tall, potted ornamental grasses across the front of my newly acquired home and several clumps of small ornamental grasses in the rockery. Should they be cut back or just ...

When winter's icy breeze sweeps across the countryside and garden birds ruffle their feathers on bare branches, most plants will have slipped into a deep slumber. Most – but not all. Evergreens such ...