I put my Hardy Pampas Grass in Fall 2013 (got it on sale) and it
woke up in early May, then put out
1 super tall stalk and 2 other much smaller ones. I heard these things can get up to 15 feet tall! I'm hoping next year it puts up more stalks to help block the neighbor's house - but it was fun having 1 huge one poking over the top of the fence like this. And it held up in the wind all fall and winter so far until I cut it down yesterday during a freak heat wave in the upper 50's.
![pampas grass size pampas grass size](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmBqbnswvtR-DFolwj7sxcjBeJBf0WCXdmIG_jmXkEHTw2lEcGQmAy5Ct7fvJ5ypWiRQnpllMorXNhma5-mC03h-mawEfj2ggnMEvAQTSNxPcYQVey4CPAJj3aPbXzAw5HxapOO6LBxOs/s640/measure+tall+grass+stalk.JPG) |
Laid out a measuring tape to see the final stats for the Pampas Grass stalk height |
![pampas grass size pampas grass size](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd2Lj495GZOECSsAZ5uKQK2hunq8ZGqFA4x7lrtbD1TjNTWgX1uRKpYHevNiPA4H2nqSq62FprGwW7o60_Nd45iNhOvF-Xvmrk58vYFbAptUF4-o6QtyWwt9Q3LZkP1MWtkehSyBHzIjc/s640/grass+and+tape+measure.JPG) |
I'm going to call it 10 feet 8 inches because I cut it a little above ground level |
Then I walked around the yard comparing it to other things to see how tall it looked. I put it up against the side of the house with the arborvitae, I put it in my river birch, and convinced Chris to take a photo of me holding it.
![cut back hardy pampas grass cut back hardy pampas grass](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLacaM1pdJcQqtcLEDUrGt9CAJ8CF8z9nrCZhRNG1crU23WlLpQAhjKn2PgQC-maSCd6JXKPIyfgyGWcvuYok5YlR0KnP3zvVyzat0rbIbqIIRovh53kZbbf9XQqB5wnnGm2LnztYGZgQ/s640/cut+bck+pampas+grass.JPG) |
Now I just have to wait 3 months for it to grow again, ugh, maybe it will come back faster since we had a warm winter and it had a chance to root in all last year. |
I need to find a suitable ground cover for this corner so it looks like I have more going on when this thing isn't growing, because it's the only thing in this entire corner bed. I even thought about moving this to the side and putting in an arborvitae with some little perennials at the base, but I don't know where this big thing would go.
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