Prairie gardens offer Midwestern suburban dwellers an alternative option to the traditional grass lawn. Their combination of native grasses, like tall and wispy bluestem and sideoats, and forbs, such ...

There's more to it than simply planting grasses and herbaceous perennials. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has ...

The post 18 Types of Flowers for Prairie Gardens is by Katherine Rowe and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic gardening, and aquaponic gardening blog. Prairie ...

A prairie is in its glory in late summer, with varied flowers, grasses just beginning to go golden, and bees and butterflies everywhere. It may make you think, “I wish I could take this home.” Well, ...

Prairie dropseed, or Sporobolus heterolepis, is a beautiful and showy grass native to the prairies of Ohio. Its fountain of delicate leaves can add a certain lyrical quality to a garden as they sway ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Horticulturist Kelly Norris has a favorite task in his Des Moines front yard: puttering. By that he means meandering, leaning into ...

Phyllis Schwitzer gardens like many of us, growing beans, cabbage, hostas and daylilies. But her repertoire extends to a glassed-in greenhouse chock with ferns, begonias, a camellia and orange and ...

ST. PAUL Ore. (KPTV) - Family-owned French Prairie Gardens welcomes the community to make the most of spring with their now-open farm. The farm is now open for the spring season with events for the ...