Growing Muhly Grass in Houston, Texas

Muhly Grass is a beautiful choice for landscaping your Houston, Texas yard or garden. Its feathery plumes look almost like waves, and they will bloom in colors that include pink, purple, rose, and amber. Most bloom from late summer through early winter, and can reach heights of up to four feet, spreading as far as six. Most Muhly Grass has beautiful foliage, too, usually a lovely bluish-green. Muhly Grass is drought tolerant, and is a great choice for Xeriscaping your Houston, Texas garden; it will also reseed. It looks absolutely beautiful in dried flower arrangements as well. If you think you would enjoy using Muhly Grass to landscape your own Houston, Texas yard or garden, try planting some of the varieties below.

Sweetgrass. This perennial groundcover adds lovely magenta colored flowers to your Houston, Texas garden all fall. Plant them in full sun in dry, sandy soil and they will spread about six feet wide, reaching heights of up to two feet. You can plant them from seed in fall through early spring, and they will make a gorgeous addition to your Houston, Texas garden. The blades of this Muhly Grass are perfect for weaving baskets and other crafts.

Gulf Coast. Plant this Muhly Grass in full sun in your Houston, Texas garden, where it will reach heights of up to three feet. It has beautiful purple and rose flowers, and the grass itself is a pretty blue green. This hardy Muhly Grass is a great choice for your Houston, Texas garden - root hardy, disease resistant and drought tolerant. Plant it from spring through fall, and expect its lovely wispy plumes in late summer and fall.

Lindheimer's. This Muhly Grass has striking two foot spikes of amber flowers, and quickly reaches heights of up to five feet in your Houston, Texas garden. Its leaves will grow in pretty blue-green clumps. Plant this groundcover in full sun in the fall, and it will bloom from spring through the first frost. This hardy Muhly Grass is disease resistant and drought tolerant, but will do best in well-drained soil.

Pink. Pink Muhly Grass blooms with cotton candy pink wisps that will make a lovely accent in your Houston, Texas garden. This variety is very drought tolerant, as well as cold tolerant, and may continue to bloom through early winter. It will grow to be about four feet tall, and will spread about four feet wide as well. Pink Muhly Grass does very well in containers, and is also a great choice for mixed borders. This variety does not seem to mind the Houston, Texas heat and humidity at all.

Purple. Plant Purple Muhly Grass in full sun in your Houston, Texas garden or yard. It will tolerate partial shade but its flowers will not be as spectacular. This Muhly Grass has beautiful lavender flowers that will bloom from late summer through late fall in your Houston, Texas garden, reaching heights of about three feet and spreading about four.

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