Grasses are the keynote plants of twenty-first century gardening and garden design. Amongst the most versatile of all plants, they offer a diversity of size, form, colour, texture and flowering time unsurpassed by any other genus, as well as providing colour and interest across the whole year. Their ever-changing beauty can be used in an endless variety of ways in the garden, providing new opportunities for creative expression. There are grasses suitable for dry and wet gardens, for tiny urban plots, patios, balconies and large country gardens, for formal gardens or for truly wild spaces. Popular choices include: Festuca glauca, Imperate Red Baron, Miscanthus Zebrinus, Pennisetum Hameln and many others.
