Varieties like Dwarf Fountain Grass, Blue Fescue, Little Bluestem, Japanese Forest Grass, Dwarf Mondo Grass, Dwarf Pampas Grass, and various Sedge cultivars offer a range of colors, textures, and forms to enhance urban gardens and patio designs.

September 18, 2024 - What that means is that in addition to the long, waving stems of taller grasses, there are also a number of small, short and low-growing varieties which are perfect for more economical spaces. “Ornamental grasses are my favourite, purely because of the fact that they add movement to a garden, ...

January 25, 2023 - Mondo Grass (Ophiopogon japonica) – Like liriope, mondo grass retains a much smaller size, 6 inches (15 cm.) by 8 inches (20 cm.) and is a great addition to areas lacing in space.

October 18, 2025 - This is a listing of the best low growing perennial ornamental grasses we offer for purchase online. Use these dwarf grass plants as accents in smaller garden spaces and container gardens, or grouped, massed or as a low border in larger landscape beds and home foundation plantings.

Small grasses, such as mondo, liriope, and blue fescue add color and texture to landscapes.

Varieties like Dwarf Fountain Grass, Blue Fescue, Little Bluestem, Japanese Forest Grass, Dwarf Mondo Grass, Dwarf Pampas Grass, and various Sedge cultivars offer a range of colors, textures, and forms to enhance any garden.

For woodland gardens with filtered sun light throughout the day, you can select great shade tolerant ornamental grasses. In our opinion, the best ornamental grasses for light shade are: Ophiopogon (Mondo Grass) - great short ornamental grass plants

October 1, 2025 - With their striking forms and low-maintenance nature, these tall grasses add movement, texture, and year-round appeal to your garden without demanding much of your time or effort. Short ornamental grasses are the perfect solution if you're looking to add interest to your garden without overwhelming smaller spaces.

Ornamental grasses are varied, simple additions to the landscape. They're hardy plants that add year-round interest, especially when natural and artificial lighting highlights their unique texture and color.

Visual guide to the best ornamental grasses for home gardens

Description:A low maintenance, cool weather ornamental grass featuring fast growing plants in the early spring and fall; beautiful narrow, arching foliage with forest green centers and creamy-white margins; well suited for containers, borders or garden...

June 26, 2025 - Korean Feather Reed Grass (Calamagrostis brachytricha) is a low-maintenance, high-impact ornamental grass with elegant, arching leaves that form a distinctive habit. Feathery blooms radiate out in all directions, emerging pink and turning ...

The plants are low maintenance and provide year-round interest. Several types are available, ranging in size, color, and shape. Short sedge grass works well as a groundcover or in flower pots, whereas tall maiden grass provides height ...

May 21, 2025 - Let’s take a look at some top picks for low-growing ornamental grasses in the landscape! Its leaves turn bright red in summer. Japanese blood grass is a colorful and bold addition to your garden paths. It’s a robust plant that rarely grows taller than 18″, but it grows lovely and bushy over time, and spreads well, so give it a bit of space to do so.

For 50 years, Settlemyre Nursery in Valdese, NC has provided the Catawba Valley with beautiful plants, shrubs, trees, flowers, landscape design, and more!

A very short (1-2 ft.) grass with airy clouds of purple seed head. Prefers medium to dry soil moisture and is tolerant of infertile, droughty soils. Excellent when used along borders or in mass plantings. ... Grows in average to wet soils and is one of the more shade-tolerant grasses. Grows 2-5 ft. tall, it produces large ornamental seed heads that turn from green to bronze in the fall.

Native ornamental grasses or sedges (Carex) for your garden. North American flora offers an abundance of very ornamental grasses in wild forms and nowadays also in many nativars.

August 8, 2022 - Ornamental grass have become popular recently . They add movement from a small breeze and tall grasses create a backdrop for smaller plants/flowers to showcase. There are so many miscanthus styles, tall , short , many colors, variegated blades and easy breezy care.

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April 8, 2012 - Some advertise their "dwarf" fountain grasses as 1.5 to 2 feet tall like Cassian. I have it and it's definitely taller. I don't want it to overwhelm my perennials, but I'd sure like the nice soft look of a fountain grass mixed in. Maybe you know of one.