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Posted: May/03/2007 11:17 AM PST
I have tried for 2 yrs to grow pampass grass in north mo. it starts out great but dies off in the winter and doesnt come back. Any suggestions on how to get this grass to grow here? My landscaping depends on it as I am doing all ornamental grasses. I have been trying with the pink pampass |
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Posted: May/04/2007 4:16 AM PST
Pampas grass is not reliably hardy below Zone 7. Unfortunately for you colder zone gardeners thats pretty much a fact. I've seen it survive warmer zone 6 winters, but eventually a cold one will nail it. |
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Posted: May/18/2007 12:31 AM PST
If you have already purchased them you might try this, right before it gets really cold, doing one of my Mom's tricks for pulling plants she is concerned about through a rough winter, she covers the spent plant with about a foot of dirt piled on top of it and then a pile of straw stuffed into the bottom of a 5 gallon bucket or tub depending on the size of the plant and then she positions this over the pile of dirt and stakes the bucket or tub down tight and piles rocks on top of it to make sure it stays in place. In the late spring she takes everything back to the ground, carefully uncovering it, (sometimes she finds the plant trying to come back through all of that soil), and hopes the perrenial comes back, usually it does, we live in zone 6. You can have early roses doing this too, but you have to go out once it gets warm and uncover it during the day and then putting the tub or bucket back at night once it starts warming up. If you have a lot of roses this can be a lot of work, I only did it one year and it worked but like I said it was a lot of work forget one night and you can literally kill your roses. |
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Posted: Jul/23/2007 2:46 AM PST
Having recently moved to the south, pampas grass was on my list of things I wanted. I discovered it has to be planted in spring to get a good start for winter hardiness here. Plants I bought and planted later didn't make it. You do have another option. Ravena grass. I'd have to go find a tag to get the botanical name. It's sometimes called hardy pampas or plume grass. Very impressive! The foliage is almost as tall as pampas, and the plume stalks even taller. Not quite as fluffy as pampas, but a very nice alternative for the north. It's not very common, so you might have to go seaching for a nursery that has it. Beware. Handle the Ravena stalks with heavy gloves and long sleeves. Has a sort of hairiness that feels like fiberglass on your skin. |
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Posted: Nov/04/2008 9:42 AM PST
I don't know where in North Missouri you are but I am just a little north of St Joseph and I have 1 large Pampas Grass in my front yard and 2 more growing in the culvert ditch in front of my property. These two are volunteers, and I would like to get rid of them and also get some information on splitting my large one because my daughter would like to have one or two pieces for her yard. |
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