We then stopped by my biggest hate of all, Satan to my trinity, the black-leaved Ophiopogon planiscapus Nigrescens. It looks like inky grass. “Look on it as a river,” Adrian told me ...

Fed up with mowing your lawn like it's Groundhog Day, yet dreaming of a yard that screams "landscaping genius" with minimal ...

Grasses including Stipa gigantea and Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’ (Black Dragon) keep the interest alive well into autumn. Many of the plants in the garden have come from Saunders’ mother, an ...

The Avery-Beausoleil garden, built on the foundation of an older Japanese garden created by Dick Yamasaki, is part of the ...

The team settled on Sedum spathulifolium Purpureum, a purple succulent, and Ophiopogon planiscapus Niger, commonly known as black mondo grass. For Mr. Dorward, it also is a big challenge each year ...

AS YOU PASS through a restored gate set within an artfully crafted fence and enter the garden of Leslee and Ray Avery-Beausoleil, you’re transported into a serene landscape inspired by private ...