More Portlanders are swapping grass for low-maintenance yards filled with native species. Why it matters: Grass requires a ...

as beds will seemingly glow with color. Muhly grass is generally considered easy to grow, as it native to much of the eastern United States. Plants are hardy to USDA zones 5-11. 5. Prairie ...

To make your life a little easier, try a native ground cover like Wild Ginger, Green and Gold Aster, Virginia Heartleaf, or ...

Beyond the vegetable beds is a planting area of native shrubs and grasses to provide additional habitat and permeable surface to collect rainwater. The rest of the small backyard holds a raised ...

Image Flowering native perennials and grasses and a serviceberry shrub (Amelanchier ... organized gardens,” he said. In a classical bed design, for example, you might put “three of this ...

Instead, they recommend embracing the look of leaves in the yard or else moving fallen leaves from grass turf to flower beds. Experts also recommend leaving native flowers and bushes intact for ...

Use as an accent plant, mass planting, in a border, or in a bed of wildflowers. It grows best in hot, dry sites. This grass attracts our native bees and is also a host plant for the Zabulon Skipper.

Native bunch grass has since sprouted on the burn scar ... three plots beside a creek bed and one underneath a grove of oak trees. Traditionally, the ytt Tribe burned land periodically to ...

Just as the city is reawakening after months of winter, so are the delicate sprouts of native grasses and wildflowers in the micro-urban grasslands of Green-Wood Cemetery. Visitors may notice a stark ...