MULESHOE, Texas – For 75 years, Bamert Seed Company has been helping restore landscapes one seed at a time. What began in 1951 as a small family operation in Muleshoe has grown into one of the ...

The recent push to help pollinators via home gardens focuses largely on shrinking lawns and replacing them with colorful meadows, wildflowers and native plants. But there’s another key element that’s ...

Native grasses can be used in a landscape either as specimen plants or for a bluegrass lawn alternative or to create a native prairie landscape. While a native grass lawn or prairie landscape is not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The edge between two homeowners' lawns shows a distinct difference between the common lawn grass, left, and John Ellis' lawn of ...

Montana rancher and inventor Lee Arbuckle may soon change the nation's market for native grass seed, a tricky-to-harvest crop worth hundreds of millions and vital to restoring wildlands. With the help ...

This week's Plant Pick of the Week is a native ornamental grass with attractive summer and fall foliage and a tight, nonflopping habit.

After devastating wildfires spread across Central Oregon this year, it’s now the post-recovery period for landowners and land managers. Returning the landscape to pre-fire conditions, or better, ...

New University of Minnesota research suggests that seeding native plants alongside invasive removal efforts may turn the tide in the battle against buckthorn. Buckthorn is one of Minnesota's most ...

The idea of restoring native ecosystems attracted Marc Pastorek’s interest in the 1990s, when he learned of the work of Drs. Charles Allen and Malcolm Vidrine. The two professors at Louisiana State ...

Student worker Peter Liu holds a bag of recently harvested seed in a ripe field of tufted hairgrass at WSU's Grass Breeding and Ecology Farm in Pullman. WSU scientists are breeding higher ...