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How to plant and care for Mexican Feather Grass
Nassella tenuissima
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
Soft, hair-fine, golden-green tufts that sway in the slightest breeze. Lovely in gravel, pots and among perennials.
When to plant and care for it
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Flowers
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Mexican Feather Grass: what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well until established, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 30 cm
- Height
- 60 cm
- In pots
- Grows well in containers
- Feeding
- No feeding needed
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 6–10
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 30 cm apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- MarchComb Out Dead Leaves
Run your gloved fingers through the clump to pull out old, dead leaves. Do not cut it back hard.
- JulyIn Flower
Feathery seed heads catching the light.
