go to the California Invasive Plant Council Web site at cal-ipc.org Encinitas resident Kurt Schroeder knows it will take some work to get rid of the 7-foot-tall pampas grass along the border of ...

Pampas grass is easily recognizable for its feathery ... and you can be sure that the runners will not spread to your borders ...

borders or flower beds. Ornamental grasses have grown on home gardeners and professional landscapers. From colossal 12-feet tall stands of pampas grass to squat tufts of blue fescue, from sea oats ...

Pampas grass is one of the few ornamental grasses ... many gardeners are reluctant to purposefully plant grasses into flower beds or borders in their landscape. Ornamental grasses, however ...

Q We have four-year-old northern pampas grass that soared to 12 feet with a ... but it can work well as a background or in mixed borders for two main reasons. Pampas starts growing ...

Grasses can be used as ground covers (that do not have to be mowed), specimen plants, hedges, perennial borders ... Maiden grass (Miscanthus sinensis), grown for its reddish-pink plumes that appear in ...

I am hard pressed to call pampas grass an ornamental grass. I have it in my peach orchard, and while beautiful, it’s a functional plant that produces an impenetrable hedge 10 feet tall.

My husband gave me a tiny pampas grass to plant at the side of our garden, next to the border, two years ago. It has done very well and is a nice size. It also achieved two plumes, although one ...