“Grasses bring a whole range of new aesthetic possibilities,” says Nik Friesen-Hughes, landscape architect and owner of Dogwood Landscape Design. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * “Grasses bring a whole range of new aesthetic possibilities,” says Nik Friesen-Hughes, landscape architect and owner of Dogwood Landscape Design. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? “Grasses bring a whole range of new aesthetic possibilities,” says Nik Friesen-Hughes, landscape architect and owner of Dogwood Landscape Design.

“Grasses are a great plant to tie things together. We all want to experiment, and our garden can be our plant collection but when we think of the garden as a composition, it is good to have some species in higher proportion that are repeated throughout the landscape. Grasses achieve this with their softness – that very fine foliage – and you repeat that again and again.

” “If you just have a bit of everything everywhere, the garden doesn’t really have an identity and can feel messy or overwhelming.” PHOTOS BY DOGWOOD LANDSCAPE DESIGN Little Bluestem grass, bottom right, with taller Karl Foerster grasses in the background. He had me at “new aesthetic possibilities.

” Friesen-Hughes specializes in naturalistic planting design. He is enamored with the characteristics and design possibilities of grasses. “I love flowers, but grasses have a special quality,” he sa.