Re: Warning about invasive grass!

**fran gustman f*@juno.com**

Dear Peter,

Does it grow from seed in all hardiness zones? Some of these invasives
are not a problem in colder areas.

Fran

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:25:24 -0400 "Peter Loewer"
<thewildgardener@earthlink.net> writes:
> 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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Fran Gustman,  fgustman@juno.com
Boston, MA
Editor, HortResources Newsletter, www.hortresources.org
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