Encyclopedia of Gardening - 760 pages (2007) A wonderfully
comprehensive reference guide for the beginner and expert. If
you only buy one gardening book it has to be this one. Grasses
have been among the trendiest plants to have in the garden in
recent years. Fashion aside, there are plenty of reasons to have
them in your garden Grasses have a subtle beauty, their flowers
are wind-pollinated and therefore not bright and showy, but
feathery and delicate and usually very much in keeping with the
rest of the plant rather than being a brightly coloured button
of a flower stuck on leaves of a totally different shape.
Grasses animate the garden with movement and often with sound.
The slightest breeze will set their slender leaves and drooping
flower heads into motion and cause gentle rustling sounds. The
shapes and colours of their leaves give a excellent contrast to
other features in the garden, to broad-leaved plants and their
showy flowers or to the materials and textures of wood, stone,
gravel, ceramics etc. th