Ornamental grass

Creating a Balance - Garden Sanitation vs. Beneficial Insect Habitat in the Home Landscape

Many gardeners are starting their fall garden and landscape clean-up - which is good and bad. Garden sanitation, if insects or diseases were a problem this year, is an important step to reduce problems next year. But we need to balance pest control with allowing habitat for beneficial insects and pollinators. So, how can that be done? 

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Get More for Your Money: Divide Ornamental Grasses

Ornamental grasses have become popular additions to the landscape and if you buy them they are kind of expensive. Learning how to grow them yourself is actually quite easy. They can be grown from seed, but the easiest and most effective way to propagate them is through simple division. If you shop around you might be able to find some parent plants in 4 inch pots at a fair price.

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Little Bluestem - 2022 Perennial Plant of the Year

The Perennial Plant Association (PPA)is a professional horticulture trade organization dedicated to improving the perennial plant industry by providing education to enhance the production, promotion and utilization of perennial plants.

The 2022 perennial of the year is little bluestem, Schizachyrium scoparium, and its’ ornamental cultivars.

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