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Although there are abounding options when it comes to planting flowers and landscaping such as Texas friendly flowers including phlox, primroses, snapdragons, lobelia, and alyssum. Here are some plants the National Arboretum recommends avoiding.

Bamboo. Some varieties of bamboo are so determined to spread that only extreme measures, such as plastic or concrete root barriers, can keep its rhizomes from running a muck in the yard. Running varieties include Chimono-bambusa, Indocalamus, Pleioblastus, and Sasa.