Purple Love Grass (Eragrostis spectabilis) - One of the most well-known and popular ornamental grasses, Purple Love Grass, is easily propagated by ornamental grass seeds. This grass is a native to the United States and is found on sandy, disturbed, or infertile soils. Eragrostis spectabilis Purple Love Grass blooms summer through fall and the purple frothiness of the flowers look their best planted in-mass next to gray foliaged plants or yellow flowered plants for contrast. This ornamental grass is great for a natural look or wildlife garden. Eragrostis provides nesting cover for ground birds and attracts butterflies. The foliage turns a pretty red-bronze in fall. Grow the grass in beds, borders or in containers.

How To Grow Purple Love Grass From Ornamental Grass Seed: Lovegrass seed can be sown either indoors in the late winter or directly outside. The ornamental grass seed is small, press the seed into the soil but do not cover it. Keep the Purple Love Grass seed moist until germination. Once established, the plants are very drought tolerant and are suitable for xeriscaping. Purple Love Grass care includes cutting the grass back in winter to prepare for spring growth.

Sand Love Grass (Eragrostis trichodes) - Grown from Love Grass seeds, this fine-leaved bunch grass is good for attracting wildlife. Sand Lovegrass is native to the United States, and it is used in naturalized landscapes and as a beautiful ornamental grass with airy seed heads. In addition to its beauty in the summer and fall, the ornamental grass provides winter interest in  beds and borders as well. The Sand Love Grass plant does especially well in sandy soil, but can be used on heavier soil as well. It can be seeded alone or it can compete well in mixes due to good seedling vigor and quick establishment even in soils that are not fertile. Sand Lovegrass Eragrostis trichodes can even be used in erosion control mixes for sandy areas. This excellent image is from a blog by lovegrassfarm.blogspot.com.

How To Grow Sand Lovegrass From Ornamental Grass Seed: Sand Lovegrass seed can be sown indoors for transplanting outside in the spring, or it can be sown directly outdoors in early spring. Once established, ornamental Sand Lovegrass is drought tolerant and suitable for xeriscaping.