When Peter Blum and his wife, Rita, had a modern house built in Irvington, New York, they hired a landscape architect to turn the existing grounds into an
During this conference session, the Garden Writers visited the McMayhill & Baker garden and the Vater garden in a charming residential neighborhood. For more information about this and other gardening topics, visit the UF/IFAS website Gardening Solutions.
Mondo grass is ideal for your garden. This grass variety is robust, hardy, and handles all types of weather conditions. Here's Everything you need to know
Mondo Grass creates attractive clumps of dark green, grass-like leaves that make a beautiful groundcover or low border. Free Shipping Over $129!
This dwarf variety, only half the size of others, creates a lush groundcover of dense, dark green, grass-like clumps. Excellent as an edging plant or tucked into rocks for a pleasing contrast. Striking in mass plantings in the landscape. Evergreen.
Q: I have heard you talk about how hard it is to grow grass in deep shade. On a recent garden tour, one gardener had a spectacular "lawn" of mondo grass. The gardener said that she sprigged the yard with small plants and that mondo sleeps, creeps, and leaps just like ivy. During those growth
Learn how to grow and look after Mondo Grass. This incredibly resilient type of plant is both tough and durable and looks great as an edging or even a lawn.
Learn to grow mondo grass, an easy-care, attractive ground cover, and a lawn alternative in shade gardens. It spreads slowly and needs no mowing.
See how this once overgrown small garden in Portland was simplified and tidied, resulting in a comfortable and calm tropical retreat.
Stunning contrast for the front of the border with exceptional, dense, purple-black, grass-like foliage. Produces dark lavender flowers in summer that are followed by purple berries in fall, creating additional interest in the landscape. Use en masse as edging, or tuck into mixed containers. Evergreen.
Mondo Grass can make an excellent grass. alternative in shady spaces. Learn about what it is and how to plant, grow & care for it here.
Try some of these robust, low-growing groundcovers for shade or tough spots—wherever you need year-round coverage.
I love mondo grass. I have planted it a couple times in different areas but I have not had good luck with it. That is probably due to my lack of caring for it properly and not something specific to the plant. When I was at Patuxent Nursery a few weeks ago with my friend Lea, they were just starting to set out the plants for the season and one thing I noticed was Black Mondo Grass. Here, on one of their large flatbed trailers, was a vast display of Black Mondo Grass. I was and continue to be intrigued by this. I feel like I must get this in the landscape somewhere. I did a little searching online for Black Mondo Grass in the landscape and here are a few of the pictures I found. I think I might need to take a walk around the yard this weekend and see where we could use some Black Mondo Grass.
“A River Runs Through It” ‘A River Runs Through It’ is the title of a 1992 Robert Redford movie starring Brad Pitt set in Montana. It is an equally appropriate title for the majority of gardens I have designed, or redesigned in recent years. I am still experimenting but creating a river of a specific […]
I love mondo grass. I have planted it a couple times in different areas but I have not had good luck with it. That is probably due to my lack of caring for it properly and not something specific to the plant. When I was at Patuxent Nursery a few weeks ago with my friend Lea, they were just starting to set out the plants for the season and one thing I noticed was Black Mondo Grass. Here, on one of their large flatbed trailers, was a vast display of Black Mondo Grass. I was and continue to be intrigued by this. I feel like I must get this in the landscape somewhere. I did a little searching online for Black Mondo Grass in the landscape and here are a few of the pictures I found. I think I might need to take a walk around the yard this weekend and see where we could use some Black Mondo Grass.
Learn our favorite ground covers to plant between pavers in the garden for every condition: full sun, partial sun, and shade.
