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EverColor Everlite Variegated Sedge Grass
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / Quart Container

With a max height of 10 to 15 inches and a max width of 8 to 10 inches this little guy fits anywhere, sun or shade. This is the most compact of all the Evercolor sedges and is perfect for edging a border, softening a hardscape, spilling out of a container...
  • Botanical Name: Carex oshimensis ‘Everlite'
  • Foliage Color: White with Green
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
  • Growth Rate: Medium
  • Soil Type: Well-Drained
  • Foliage: Ornamental grass, evergreen
Nebraska
Omaha
Redhead Fountain Grass
Prices start at : 39.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

Smoky Rose Color Plumes That Last Months! The Ornamental Fountain Grass 'Redhead Fountain Grass', 'Pennisetum 'Redhead', produces very soft plumes that are smoky rose in color, all season long.
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun
  • Growth Rate: Medium
  • Flower Color: Mahogany, Red Seed Head
  • Botanical Name: Pennisetum 'Redhead'
  • Soil Type: Widely Adaptable
Nebraska
Omaha
EverColor Everlime Variegated Sedge Grass
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / Quart Container

Once you try it you will agree that it is such a great and adaptable plant. Nothing does that as well as grasses and sedges. Everlime can also stabilize and beautify that hard-to-maintain slope, if you need it to.
  • Mature Height: 12 - 15 inches
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Full Shade, Partial Sun
  • Flower Color: Brown
  • Moisture: Water carefully to establish, and weekly as needed for best results.
  • Growth Rate: Medium
  • Mature Spread: 1 - 4 feet
Nebraska
Omaha
Adagio Grass
Prices start at : 27.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

It quickly becomes a stunning whirl of burgundy and gold in the fall. Cut them down in late winter and they will spring back up fresh every year. Mix them into your perennial borders.
  • Botanical Name: Miscanthus sinensis 'Adagio'
  • Flower Color: White
  • Mature Height: 3 - 5 feet
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
  • Mature Spread: 2 - 3 feet
Nebraska
Omaha
Legacy Buffalo Grass Plugs
Prices start at : 67.45 USD / 72 Plug Tray

Planting is quick and easy. It's lush and soft while at the same time durable and hardy. Your lawn will be among the first in the neighborhood to green up in the spring, and the vibrant color will last long into fall.
  • Mature Height: 3 - 5 inches
  • Botanical Name: Buchloe dactyloides 'Legacy'
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Mature Spread: 12 - 18 inches
  • Foliage: Dark Blue Green
Nebraska
Omaha
UC Verde Buffalo Grass Plugs
Prices start at : 62.96 USD / 72 Plug Tray

An Established Lawn in as Little as 90 Days! You will receive Accelerated Growth Plugs, the economical way to a buffalo grass lawn. It is the grass to use in areas of dry, intense heat found in the southwest and California.
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun, Partial Sun
  • Growth Rate: Fast
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Botanical Name: Buchloe dactyloides 'UC Verde'
Nebraska
Omaha
Dwarf Mondo Grass
Prices start at : 39.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

Try some today to begin enjoying its stellar qualities. Dwarf Mondo Grass is a low growing grass that grows to about 4 inches, so if you use it as a lawn substitute keeping it short won't be a problem, and you won't spend all your weekends mowing it.
  • Fall Color: Evergreen
  • Growth Rate: Fast
  • Brand: Nature Hills Nursery
  • Flower Color: White
  • Foliage: Green
  • Botanical Name: Ophiopogon japonicus 'Nana'
Nebraska
Omaha
Little Miss Maiden Grass
Prices start at : 27.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

Wait until you see it backlit by the sun. Little Miss has green, lush, graceful foliage that emerges in early spring. The inside foliage, near the center stays green which gives a neat two-tone effect.
  • Soil Type: Well Drained
  • Moisture: Moderate
  • Sun Exposure: Full Sun
  • Botanical Name: Miscanthus sinensis 'Little Miss'
  • Mature Spread: 1 - 4 feet
  • Flower Color: Red
Nebraska
Omaha
Horse Quality Timothy
Price : CALL

12 flakes average per bale. $9.00 per bale delivered. $7.50 per bale pick up. Price break possible for large purchases. Delivery charge may increase over 20 miles away from Farm. Beautiful horse quality hay.
Hanover
Rockville
Gold Dew Tufted Hair Grass
Prices start at : 39.95 USD / #1 Container range: 2.3 - 3.7 quarts (2.5 - 4 liters)

A compact grass with a big impact! Grasses are finally getting their day in the sun in American home gardens. Gold Dew has very dark green leaves and blooms a little later than other grasses, but when it blooms it is covered in golden inflorescence that...
  • Fall Color: Yellow
  • Botanical Name: Dechampsia cespitosa 'Goldtau'
  • Flower Color: Golden Yellow
  • Moisture: Average
  • Foliage: Green
  • Mature Spread: 24 - 30 inches
Nebraska
Omaha
Unusual and Bizarre Plants - A Contender for Strangest Plant in the World
Here I'll introduce you to a group of parasitic desert plants that are even more bizarre. I hesitate to describe them as "roots" because they look much more like specialized underground stems.
California
El Segundo
Mexican Feather Grass (Stipa, Nasella)
Prices start at : 16.95 USD / 1 GAL

Plants should be groomed or cut to the ground in early spring to remove tattered foliage and make way for new foliage. Plants adapt to a wide range of conditions – moderate salinity, drought, slightly acid or alkaline pH and heavy clay or sandy soil.
Maryland
Bowie
Carex Bowles Golden
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 GAL

Cultivars of this species are superior garden plants to the species. This beautiful sedge's vivid foliage adds bright color to the garden. Genus name from Latin means cutter in reference to the sharp leaves and stem edges (rushes are round but sedges...
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Yaku Jima
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / 3 GAL

‘Yaku Jima' is sometimes described in commerce as being a dwarf form of Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Cut foliage to the ground in late winter just before new shoots appear.
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Morning Light Maiden Grass
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 GAL

Not much fall color, with blades eventually turning straw-beige by winter. ‘Morning Light' tends to keep its upright shape better than some other cultivars and rarely flops. Morning Light Maiden Grass forms a graceful, upright mound of narrow green...
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Adagio Maiden Grass
Prices start at : 24.95 USD / 3 GAL

Foliage and flower plumes persist well into winter providing good winter interest. Dwarf size facilitates use as a tall ground cover. Miscanthus Adagio is a dwarf grass cultivar which is one of the shortest of the many Miscanthus cultivars available in...
Maryland
Bowie
Carex Evergold
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 Gal

Plants are evergreen throughout most of their growing range. Brightly variegated foliage in yellow and green of Carex Evergold features a tight fountain-like habit, even in the shade.
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Little Zebra (Dwarf Maiden Grass)
Prices start at : 12.95 USD / 1 GAL

Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Plant Patent PP13,008 issued September 24, 2002. Miscanthus Little Zebra makes a tidy, compact mound of green foliage with prominent, yellow horizontal banding that...
Maryland
Bowie
Miscanthus Gracillimus (Maiden Grass)
Prices start at : 16.95 USD / 1 Gal

The foliage dries and turns tan-bronze for the winter. Miscanthus Gracillimus' is an old and very popular cultivar. A blaqze of coppery-pink plumes is the perfect addition to any fall garden.
Maryland
Bowie
Growing Plants in the High Desert- Early Experiences (part 1)
Maybe I exaggerate a wee bit again... During these transition seasons, the days are often blazing hot and the nights are freezing... Attempting to dry clothes on a clothes line in this town usually gets one a littering citation.
California
El Segundo
Golden Japanese Forest Grass (Hakonechloa m. ‘Aureola\')
Prices start at : 24.95 USD / 1 Gal

Other common names include forest grass and Japanese forest grass. Yellow-green flowers appear in loose, nodding panicles in mid-summer. It is a rhizomatous, deciduous perennial grass that typically grows in dense spreading clumps to 15” tall and features...
Maryland
Bowie
Panicum Shenandoah (Red Switchgrass)
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 GAL

Perfect for use in rain gardens, and provides winter interest in any situation. Foliage also turns beige in fall and provides good winter interest. This ornamental switch grass cultivar features some of the best burgundy-red foliage of the many panicum...
Maryland
Bowie
Desert Hyacinth Information – Learn About The Cultivation Of Desert Hyacinths
Read on for more desert hyacinth information.Desert hyacinth thrives in climates that receive as little as 8 inches (20 cm.) of water per year, usually during the winter months. Desert hyacinth plants manage to survive in extremely punishing conditions...
Ohio
Willoughby
Introduction to Dasylirions (Sotols)
This article serves as an introduction to these beautiful plants along with some cultivational information as well. Dasylirions are one of the most ornamental of the desert landscape plants commonly available in cultivation.
California
El Segundo
Tumbleweeds
It made running about in bare feet a very uncomfortable experience as well.Ther are many other species of tumbleweeds and Wikipedia has Most of the 'tumbleweed' species originate from Asia or Africa, but a few are native to the New World.
California
El Segundo
Panicum Heavy Metal
Prices start at : 29.95 USD / 3 GAL

Grows primarily in clumps, but may infrequently spread by rhizomes. Panicles turn straw-yellow as the seeds mature fading to beige in winter. This native grass withstands seasonal flooding yet is drought tolerant once established.
Maryland
Bowie
Pennisetum Hameln
Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 GAL

In the fall, the foliage turns a lovely golden color. We truly love this product and use it on all plants we install in our own gardens. With its green foliage, it is the perfect plant to use as a specimen or plant en masse to provide a bold wave of foliage...
Maryland
Bowie