Big bluestem grass is a stunning plant. However, before growing it in your garden, it's important to know of the different benefits and drawbacks.

Hay market report for the week ending July 5, according to the Kansas Department of Agriculture-USDA Market News Service.

Big sheath bluestem, its feathered florets floating in parchment boats. Toothache grass, its tiny teeth twisted in a cosmic spiral.

Since you want to add more edibles to your landscape, this would be a good addition, although it might not be easy to find.

It is simply glorious, especially the way it captures the seeds of my little bluestem grasses, the tawny tufts of ironweed seedheads rising 8 feet from the perennial border, and the radiant stems ...

Big bluestem grass seed can be purchased from seed companies or harvested directly from the seed heads. Collect the seed heads when they are dry in September or October.

Ornamental grasses are rewarding landscape plants. They sway in the breeze, adding movement along with sound as they rustle in the breeze. Grasses do have flowers; though not traditional flowers ...

The cover of "Sea of Grass" and authors Dave Hage and Josephine Marcotty. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House and Chris Bentley/Here & Now) The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in ...

Big Bluestem Often thought of as a prairie grass, bluestem has a wider range than that, extending across the eastern two thirds of the United States.

There are several cultivars of little bluestem grass, but all turn a reddish purple in the fall, forming a beautiful foil to the garden yellows and oranges. (Pat Munts/For The Spokesman-Review) ...

You, too, can listen to my mother’s advice and see what the land has to say to you — be it a wide hillside of bluestem grass or a single window box filled with petunias.