Essential for landscape architects, professional gardeners, and gardening supply companies, this full color paperback edition of this popular guide explores over 70 species and varieties of ornamental grasses, together with their typical design applications. The book covers perennials, annuals, and grass-like plants, explaining how to utilize ornamental grasses as hedges, screens, shading, and garden highlights. Included is the work of such noted landscape and garden designers as Wolfgang, Oehme, Edith Eddleman, and Hans Hanses. This paperback edition now features a new section on recently cultivated grass varieties.