Ponds, fountains, pools, trees, flowers, decorative grasses, benches, sculpture, parks and lamps dot the project.

Castor Bean Castor bean is an annual decorative grass that adds a splash of color to any flower arrangement.

In summer, carriers keep clippers in their trucks so they can cut a path through to boxes that their proud owners have buried in flowering shrubs or decorative grasses.

But most decorative annual grasses are grown for their flower stalks, which don't really look like flowers but more like feathery or fluffy plumes.

One piece, a sculpture of decorative grasses by Pat Laltrella, has been eaten twice, and the area where the sculpture once was now sits barren.

Dramatically unlike anything ever seen in America, theirs is truly a garden for all seasons, marked by lush plantings of decorative grasses and massed bold-colored perennials that blend with the landscape and can be viewed with interest all year long.

In keeping with their goal of a landscape that has interest all year round, Oehme and van Sweden's plant "vocabulary" is strong in decorative grasses and other plants that change with the seasons.

Some large shrubs, like tree lilac, magnolias, buddleias and Cornus alba 'elegantissima' provide vertical structure and offer light shade to offset the sunny locations, planted by Lynden Miller with a wide range of hardy perennials and decorative grasses, intermixed with annuals planted to seem naturalized.

What a frisson this will cause to riffle through the decorative grasses of the English Riviera.

A Modest Expenditure Nevin Shalit, 27, was considering ferns for his West Village courtyard, which gets only an hour of direct sunlight a day, but his roommate, Beth Schaeffer, wanted to try decorative grasses.