Re: [gardeners] Re: a hardy Pampas grass
George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 08:02:33 -0700
Pampas grass is used a lot in highway medians here and in Texas along
with oleander. Evidently it is winter hardy in zones 8 and up and makes
tremendous clumps capable of slowing down a car veering off the highway.
It also is a prodigious producer of "fluff" in the spring and a major
cause of allergy irritation. Ahh choo! It's still pretty.
George
Cynthia Mayeaux wrote:
>
> At 02:34 AM 10/4/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hi Cynthia,
> > Congrats on your great aquisitions. How hardy is Pampas Grass?
> >
> >
> >Matt Trahan <matttrahan@ecsu.campus.mci.net> or <garden@juno.com>
> >USDA zone 8, AHS heat zone 7, Sunset zone 31, northeastern N.C.
> >
> >
> Well Matt, that's a very good question...we shall see, it seems to be in
> rather bad shape right now. I really won't know until next spring. The
> nursery had several awesome clumps that they said were about four years old.
>
> Cynthia (catching up, catching up)
>
> **Womyn Who Moves Mountains-Little Finger Of Michigan**
> **cmayeaux@traverse.com **USDA zone 4b-Sunset zone 41**
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