This ornamental grass thrives with little water. Blue fescue (Festuca glauca) is a beautiful ornamental grass known for its striking silvery-blue foliage. Because of its compact growth and ...

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates ...

A truly versatile perennial grass, blue fescue (Festuca glauca) has an eye-catching blue hue that lasts all year. With its clump-forming habit, blue fescue forms uniform balls of foliage topped with ...

With the British Open at Royal Troon starting Thursday, it’s as good of a time as any to talk about fescue. Fescue is a lot of things, tall, pretty, Scottish...and annoying, infuriating, terrifying.

Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) is a widely cultivated cool-season turfgrass and forage species worldwide, thriving best between 15°C and 25°C. Temperatures above 35°C can cause irreversible damage, ...

Fescue anyone? That’s what they probably have said to each other at St. Andrews before offering up the challenge of a round of golf. Worldwide, there are many applicable uses for the six types of fine ...

When a hot, rainless fortnight turns most lawns the colour of straw, the patches that stay green are almost always tall ...

You know it as the long wispy grass that grabs your club and forces you to thoroughly check for ticks, but fescue grass is much more than agonizing long stuff. Cut at shorter lengths, fine fescue ...

Planting blue fescue is easy, even for beginner gardeners. Follow these simple steps to help establish blue fescue in your garden or yard. Choose a sunny spot: Select a well-draining area of your ...