What: Miscanthus sinensis “Gold Bar” sets the new standard for golden variegated ornamental grasses. This showstopper has a multitude of dramatic gold stripes that cut across the grass blades. Often ...

What: Featuring blue-green foliage with white margins, Miscanthus sinensis “Morning Light,” commonly called morning light variegated maiden grass, is a silvery addition to garden borders. Dense seed ...

THE CROP A “demanding crop,” miscanthus grass is harvested in the winter and grows from spring to the fall before it frosts over. It is known as a perennial grass since it doesn’t require replanting ...

They glisten in the sun, sway and shimmer in the breeze, and provide year-round interest. This is the grace and beauty of ornamental grasses. Planted as a sweep, they serve as a low border or a ...

Ornamental grasses add texture, height, and color to your landscape, enhancing its visual appeal. While they are a key element in many garden design layouts, it's important to choose your desired ...

Miscanthus has a smaller carbon footprint than corn and soybeans, and experts say it has the potential to strengthen U.S.

One week brings deluge. The next, not a drop of rain and sizzling heat. How are we to garden in such extremes? Doesn't seem fair, does it? There are plants that thrive on moisture and others touted ...

Ornamental grasses are graceful standouts in the fall garden. And this time of year the waving plumes of native grasses rival spring's roadside attraction, the bluebonnets. Grasses are exceptionally ...

I owa doesn't have coal mines, oil fields or natural gas. Resources used to generate energy consumed in the Hawkeye state are imported. Giant miscanthus — a warm-season grass native to Eastern Asia ...

The tall grasses that billow and bend in the wind between Melrose Avenue and the Finkbine Commuter parking lot on Iowa City’s west side not only are beautiful, but they help the University of Iowa ...

Researchers have successfully demonstrated precision gene editing in miscanthus, a promising perennial crop for sustainable bioenergy production. Biologists edited the genomes of three miscanthus ...