A Take on Grasses – Appreciating the Lowly but Important

A Take on Grasses – Appreciating the Lowly but Important Garden Element

When the subject of gardens and landscaping is brought to a conversation, the first things that pop into peoples minds are trees, shrubs, flowers. Rarely do people take notice of something very significant and crucial for the beauty of most landscapes grasses. Humans step on them, children play on them, dogs roll over them, but most of the time people ignore these prominent figures of gardens and parks. Imagine how a landscape would be without grasses it would be dull, dry, boring if not downright ugly. Without grasses, a scenery would usually not be complete.

Grasses are very useful not only for their aesthetic qualities but for some practical purposes as well. Grasses are very flexible as they can grow in almost any quality of soil more than other kinds of plants. Grasses do not need so much for them to thrive, just water is enough for most grasses to grow and make any landscape green. While many people have the notion that grasses are boring, their wide variety makes them interesting components of a landscape as they come in different colors, textures, and heights. Even when grasses...