How do you revive Elijah Blue fescue, the popular blue tufted ornamental grass, if it’s is looking dry and dead? Or can you? Costa Mesa reader Niki Parker wrote into to our SoCal Garden Clinic ...

Blue fescue grass is the ornamental grass choice for a small specimen. It grows to 8 inches tall. The foliage is fine-bladed and silvery blue.

Here's a lively discussion about how different gardeners tidy up their blue fescue. My favorite -- and the one I'm going to try -- is "close cropping" -- the "plant version of a military buzz cut." ...

Green lawns don't have to be water hogs. From blue grama to red fescue, learn more about 10 drought-resistant grasses for a low-maintenance lawn.

“Try doing that on rye grass or blue grass,” Johnson said. The problem with fescue care, especially back in the early 2000s, was there wasn’t much available literature on the topic.