Re: Warning about invasive grass!

**"Peter Loewer" t*@earthlink.net**

Nancy: Apologies for not including USDA Zone 6. Peter
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From: "Nancy Szerlag" <szerlag@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: [GWL] Warning about invasive grass!


> Peter - What is the zone hardiness of this invasive grass.
>
> Nancy Szerlag
>
> ----------
> >From: "Peter Loewer" <thewildgardener@earthlink.net>
> >To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
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> >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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