Quote:
Originally Posted by Iowa
GIANT REED GRASS
This is a nice plant but invasive in warmer areas, here it's a tender perennial. I lost this to a late April cold snap, again. After cutting and digging 2 pickup loads of roots I did not plant it again. At 22' tall it looks great. next to it on the left in the second pic is some Miscanthus Giganteus, a little hard to see. |
Thank you for making me aware of Giant Reed Grass. Wikipedia has a lot of interesting things to say about it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundo_donax .
In particular, it concerns me that the plant is a fire hazard. Also, unlike Miscanthus Giganteus, it responds to fertilizer when young.