Re: Warning about invasive grass!

**"Nancy Szerlag" s*@earthlink.net**

Peter - What is the zone hardiness of this invasive grass. 

Nancy Szerlag

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>From: "Peter Loewer" <thewildgardener@earthlink.net>
>To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
<gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [GWL] Warning about invasive grass!
>Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2003, 1:25 PM
>

> Group: Just a warning about a potentially dangerous grass. The only reason
> I'm writing concerns finding plants for sale this past weekend at two local
> box stores. It's Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Moudry' [P. alopecuroides
> 'Viridescens'], or the black-flowering pennisetum. This is a beautiful grass
> that was not imported from New Zealand and named in honor of a native tribe,
> nor was it, as rumored, a horticultural form found by the Cincinnati Parks
> Department (seed actually was came from the Baltimore City Horticulturist,
> G. Moudry), and while strikingly beautiful, it is extremely invasive. Upon
> ripening, the bristly seeds attach themselves to people and animals, not to
> mention the wind, and are soon invading your lawn, your garden, your
> neighbor's lawn two doors down the street or perennial borders two or three
> blocks away. This grass is attractive just in growth but when in flower,
> sporting six-inch black plumes on eighteen-inch stems, it's almost worth the
> trouble of cutting back those flowering stems before the seeds mature. And
> that's a job you must do! If you don't--Peter Loewer
>
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