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Article: A GUIDE TO ORNAMENTAL GRASSES CREATE NATURALISTIC LANDSCAPING WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF COLORS AND SHAPES.(HOME & GARDEN)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 28, 1996
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Byline: ROBERT STIFFLER, GARDENING COLUMNIST
FOR YEARS, we yanked and pulled and hoed to keep grass out of our gardens. But then landscape designers declared grasses are ``the hair of the earth'' and belong in American gardens.
Noted landscape designers like Wolfgang Oehme in Washington, D.C., and Edith Eddleman at the North Carolina State University Arboretum, started using ornamental grasses in gardens. And received acclaim.
Today grasses are available in shades from green to gray to yellow to red to white. And in heights from 8 inches to 8 feet. You can pick and choose to fit your personal landscape.
Much of the ornamental grass ...