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Delightful Ornamental Grasses
Many barely known, but wonderful grasses are overlooked and never sold widely to the public because consumers are not asking for them at their local garden centers. To combat overuse of a handful of grass types, you should start requesting other selections for home or commercial use.

Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Lawn Care Library - How Grass Grows
The major exception is zoysia grass, a warm-season grass occasionally grown in warmer areas downstate. The roots of cool-season grasses grow best between 55 ° F and 65 ° F. Shoots grow best between 67 ° F and 75 ° F. In early spring, even before the grass starts to green up, the roots break dormancy and begin growing.

Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Using Texture in Flower Gardens
In addition to color and plant shape, use texture to increase the aesthetic appeal of your plantings. When designing plantings, it is this visual texture (as opposed to the tactile experience) that we are most concerned about.

Friendship Garden
Appropriately, the Friendship Garden is perhaps the garden that homeowners can most easily relate to. Although the Friendship Garden is as small as any suburban yard, you'll want to budget fifteen minutes to a half hour to savor all the detail this landscape has to offer.

Gardening Resources, Cornell University
Master Gardeners assembled four raised bed gardens which were filled with soil donated from a local construction company. Mention of trade names and commercial products is for educational purposes; no discrimination is intended and no endorsement by Cornell Cooperative Extension or Cornell University is implied.


Local Listings for Ornamental Grasses
in Massachusetts
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Harbor Garden Center, Inc.
Salisbury, Massachusetts  (MA) 01952
 ""The Yard And Garden Experts""
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This company has an e-commerce enabled web site.  

Briggs Nursery
North Attleboro, Massachusetts  (MA) 02760
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Garden Centers of America 

Kennedy's Country Gardens
Scituate, Massachusetts  (MA) 02066
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Garden Centers of America 

Morrison's Home & Garden
Plymouth, Massachusetts  (MA) 02362
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Garden Centers of America 

A.J. Tomasi Nurseries, Inc.
Pembroke, Massachusetts  (MA) 02359

Allandale Farm, Inc
Brookline, Massachusetts  (MA) 02467

Arrowhead Nursery
Nantucket, Massachusetts  (MA) 02554

Avant Gardens
Dartmouth, Massachusetts  (MA) 02747

This company has an e-commerce enabled web site.  You can download this company's catalog from their brochure!  

Bemis Farms Nursery
Spencer, Massachusetts  (MA) 01562

Bird House Garden Center
Boxborough, Massachusetts  (MA) 01719

Burt Associates Bamboo
Westford, Massachusetts  (MA) 01886

Cochato Nursery
Holbrook, Massachusetts  (MA) 02343

Crocker Nurseries
Brewster, Massachusetts  (MA) 02631

Crystal Gardens Unlimited
Hadley, Massachusetts  (MA) 01035-9695

Dellarocco's Landscape & Garden Center
Middleboro, Massachusetts  (MA) 02346

Eric's Greenhouse & Garden Center
Westford, Massachusetts  (MA) 01886-3010

Five Star Gardens
Palmer, Massachusetts  (MA) 01069

Green Spot Garden Center
South Yarmouth, Massachusetts  (MA) 02664

Hadley Garden Center
Hadley, Massachusetts  (MA) 01035

Hart Farm Nursery & Garden Center
Dennisport, Massachusetts  (MA) 02639-1114

Kingston Nursery
Kingston, Massachusetts  (MA) 02364

MacLeod Nursery Landscape and Design
Williamsburg, Massachusetts  (MA) 01096

Nantucket Wildflower Farm
Nantucket, Massachusetts  (MA) 02554

New England Nurseries, Inc.
Bedford, Massachusetts  (MA) 01730

Northeast Nursery Garden Center
Peabody, Massachusetts  (MA) 01960