Odessa American: MASTER GARDENERS: Familiar prairie grasses make achieving a natural landscape easier This will be the first in a series of articles on our native prairie grasses that can be used to enhance your yard. But first we need to know a bit more about prairies. Prairies are our heritage and ...

Understanding the Context

As common in commercial landscapes as it is in its prairie home, switch grass (Panicum virgatum) is incredibly versatile. Grasses are generally easy to grow, drought-tolerant and pest-resistant, and ... Native grasses can be used in a landscape either as specimen plants or for a bluegrass lawn alternative or to create a native prairie landscape. While a native grass lawn or prairie landscape is not ...

Key Insights

Key Points For full sun locations, pick switchgrass, pink muhly grass, prairie dropseed, and little bluestem.Grasses for partial shade include bottlebrush grass, river oats, Japanese sedge, and tufted ... Little bluestem, prairie dropseed, Indian grass and other native ornamental grasses are good options for the Kansas landscape because of their drought tolerance, resistance to pests and overall low ... 'Louisiana Grass Roots', an independent documentary, will air on Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB) and details the story of the endangered Cajun Prairie lands and the efforts to restore them. Prairies used to cover a swath of America from Mexico to Canada. But not all prairies are the same.

Final Thoughts

Different conditions dictate each prairie ecosystem, and thus what plants and animals exist in each ...