1. Purple Fountain Grass (Pennisetum setaceum ‘Rubrum’) This relative of green fountain grass stands out in the landscape with its burgundy-purple foliage and arching flower spikes in fall.

This week's column discusses cutting back ornamental grasses and the pros and cons of starting your own plants from seed in the winter.

Rubrum has upright, arching, burgundy-tinted foliage that has the classic, true fountain grass habit. This plant produces waves of gracefully nodding, soft-purple plumes during the summer.

Last summer’s monsoon is best described as a “non-soon” with very little precipitation. In the five months since August there has been virtually no measurable rain in the ...

Fountain grass is not established on Maui, but on Hawaii island, it helps to fuel wildfires. On Maui, other nonnative grasses do so to a lesser extent. — Photos courtesy of the U.S .Forest ...

Cool season ornamental grasses such as pampas grass, perennial fountain grasses, and switch grass, should be cut back in late winter/early spring before new growth begins. Warm season grasses ...