Ornamental grass can add both color and texture to your outdoor living space. They can be used to help create a no-mow yard , accent a cottage garden, or provide a focal point to help your small ...

Ornamental grasses are low-maintenance and can add height, color and texture to your garden. They can be used as groundcover, for erosion control, or as design elements.

Blue fescue grass is the ornamental grass choice for a small specimen. It grows to 8 inches tall. The foliage is fine-bladed and silvery blue.

Blue fescue. Festuca glauca. The European native grows in short tufts suited for edges or accents. By summer’s end, its thin blue-green blades resemble the color of blond straw.

Clearwater Blue Idaho Fescue at the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Bouteloua grass at the Theodore Payne Foundation in Sun Valley.

Mounding grasses include Blue Fescue (Festuca glauca), Japanese Forest Grass (Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’), Hair’s Tail (Lagurus ovatus (annual)), Blue Oat Grass (Helictotrichon sempervirens ...

The drive into the Clif Bar facility is bordered by ornamental grasses, mainly Karl Foerster feather reed grass and blue oat grass, punctuated with swaths of blue fescue, basin wild rye, panic ...

Blue fescue (Festuca glauca) is an adorable, tidy, clump-forming ornamental grass. These clumps of a rich steely blue are best planted in full sun with very good drainage.

In springtime, when flowers are busting out all over, ornamental grass is the last thing on the mind of most gardeners. ... What blue fescue lacks in stature, it makes up for in toughness.

The Gardener Within: Ornamental grasses have gone from one of the best-kept secrets in landscape design to mainstream favorites. Here's how to add them to your garden.