Re: Warning about invasive grass!

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

Fran: Asheville is USDA Zone 6 although it's getting warmer. But this grass
seeds as a tiny plant and it's all over. Winter temps here can go a fw
degrees below zero. Peter
----- Original Message -----
From: "fran gustman" <fgustman@juno.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Warning about invasive grass!


> 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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