Bamboo Muhly Grass

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Delicate, airy foliage with bamboo-like canes. Wheat-colored terminal branchlets provide a golden, feathery look to the garden. Prefers well-drained soils and is anexcellent substitute for bamboo in drier gardens.

Companion Plants

Mexican Feather Grass

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Mexican Feather Grass

Slender, bright green leaves topped with tan flowers sway easily in the breeze, bringing texture and motion to your garden. Stunning combined with coneflower, yarrow, aster and sedum. Flower plumes are wonderful in dried arrangements.

East Indian Holly Fern

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East Indian Holly Fern

Lovely evergreen fern with variegated, fine-textured fronds. Plant in the shaded or woodland garden with heuchera, tiarella and toad lily, alone in small groupings, or massed for ground cover. Excellent in cut flower arrangements. Slow-growing and resilient.

Lilyturf

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Lilyturf

Lush foliage and beautiful flowers are lovely at garden or woodland edges, in rock gardens or even indoors as a houseplant. An outstanding ground cover, it will even perform in dry shade. Cut back in early spring to promote new growth.

Details

Common name

Bamboo Muhly Grass

Botanical name

Muhlenbergia dumosa

Zone

USDA 8 - 11

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Bloom color

Green

Bloom time

spring

Light

sun

Height

4-6' (1-2 m)

Habit

upright

Water

weekly during dry spells

Feed

use all-purpose

Maintenance

mulch to reduce weeds