Every time the ornamental grasses start flowering in summer and ... Genus Pennisetum is from tropical Africa so it's a real heat tolerant species. The species, Pennisetum setaceum, or white ...

Ornamental grasses are the gateway to a fabulous ... the more finely textured they are. Some coarse, tropical grasses offer blades fully 2 inches wide, while the hardy, cold-weather fescues ...

Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum), a tropical perennial grass native to Papua New Guinea ... has many uses in the ornamental landscape,' says Andy Kaufman, Associate Professor and Landscape ...

Small rubber plants. Ornamental grasses and, here and there, a gigantic elephant ear plant. “It seems a little more . . . tropical,” said Charles Willis, a Revere High School teacher and ...

Ornamental grasses are practical but also impactful ... plant family - the grass family - Japanese blood grass is native to tropical and subtropical regions in Asia, Africa and Europe.

But as the days shorten, the botanically aware know that the indefatigable ornamental grasses—in countless colors, sizes and textures—are primed to steal the spotlight and hold it straight ...

Established swards of the tropical forage grass Andropogon gayanus var. bisquamulatus (Hochst.) Hack were heavily colonized by the leaf-cutter Acromyrmex landolti Forel over a period of 33 months in ...

Researchers involved in a new study led by Oxford University have found that between three million and 3.5 million years ago, the diet of our very early ancestors in central Africa is likely to have ...

“There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye. There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.” ...