Pampas grass

That is lovely planting Tetters.
Very jealous.....I divided my own Grass Gigantea last year so only a few flowers on one plant this year.

 

Pampas grass was very "in" during the sixties and seventies . It does look nice when in flower , but can become a bit of a brute .There is a very large one just down the road , now if you wanted to remove it you would need a JCB !
As @Tetters said one of it's advantages is it is a signal for swingers ! So you may get a few interesting callers

 

....or disadvantages - as the case may be

 

Just seen this post, I had two pampas grasses both in lilac and the neighbour always had them off me to put in her large pots by the fire

 

ooh err Gail... Were the plumes bright purple like those pictures, or a muted lilac/grey?

 

Beautiful double act, luv the bit of fluff

 

@Tetters look at these ever lasting plants I broughtgood or what

 

Are they hardy?

 

When dry pampas grass burns well and in the 70s some people recommended fire as a method of tidying them up. The old dry material burnt away and then it reshoots. Do not do this, it burns well and produces a lot of sparks and flaming debris that floats on the breeze. My father "thought he would help" a friend by setting fire to their pampas grass one summer day. Completely forgot the petrol station across the road (granted a wide road) result was he spent the rest of the day with a hose damping down the pampas grass. Never did learn what the garage man said to him.

 

I also read its "good" to burn pampas grass, I mentioned it to my neighbour when she moaned about the garden maintenance team who took a strimmer to hers, she looked at me as if I was crazy

 

Well lets say this i'll never have no trouble from them, like the cost of others then re-having to transplant into the garden...not bad ah for £20 and people think they're real

 

Members this is only one of three I purchased here's the other two...got not choice as what I was buying kept out growing the large pots with in a year and on the front garden two plants died where I put this one and people think they're real pepper plants?