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I'm in Middle TN. My question is: My Silky Thread Plants turn tan over winter. In late spring, some of the grass plants start to tur...Read More
The previous owners of our house left a couple of clumps of this in a pot, and there had been a drought, so they appeared dead. We were t...Read More
This grass is taking over my yard. How do I control it?
In zone 4, at 5000' altitude in clay soil I was unable to keep this plant alive. It does not seem to be able to withstand the wind and th...Read More
Interesting that nearly all of the comments are from very warm zones, where this plant is certainly invasive. But I live in zone 5, grow...Read More
Native to west Texas, New Mexico, Mexico, Chile, and Argentina, this species has been deemed an emerging threat to natural habitat in Cal...Read More
I cant stand this stuff... my neighbor has this planted everywhere and it killed all the stuff in my garden beds and now my turf is mixed...Read More
PROS: beautiful to watch wave in the wind. Easy to plant, grow and reseed (does on its own) Drought tolerant and great for rocky xeriscap...Read More
I planted three small plants along a border, and I now have at least one dozen volunteers. What is interesting is that this grass seems t...Read More
Your neighbors will hate you for planting Mexican Feather Grass, or Thread Grass. It will be growing all over the place-and is not at all...Read More
I'm in zone 13a (as http://planthardiness.ars.usda.go...Read More
I planted more than one in a perennial bed that gets watered regularly. It's lovely, but it sure does reseed! I pull and hoe out the see...Read More
This plant makes me furious.
This is the nicest thing I can say.
The landlord of the apartments next door h...Read More
This is a beautiful grass, though invasive as others have mentioned. The movement of the plant as a light breeze catches it is just beau...Read More
Although it reseeds freely as others have mentioned, I find the seedlings easy to pull out. Even the larger ones can be removed or trans...Read More
plant grows well here ,'west mesa in albuquerque. no problem with reseeding have divided to get four new plants. Looks good in winter.
I live in the Dallas, TX area & planted one in 2007. I now have several that I've re-potted from baby plants. My main plant did die afte...Read More
I put one of these in a small backyard garden because I liked it visually and the way it moves in the wind. I thought it a harmless caref...Read More
My dog chased her tennis ball into an area of our yard where this plant is proliferating. She had several of the hairs stuck in her eyes ...Read More
beautiful sensuous grass which adapts to a variety of conditions, sun, part shade, dry poor soil. Reseeds and spreads but not difficult to control.
My landscape designer suggested this grass, and I think it is really lovely to watch blowing in the wind. However, it was planted next to...Read More
I will agree with most of the aforementioned statements , durable , beautiful and so on . But I also see that it is labeled as INVASIVE ....Read More
This grass looks like a clump of hair, dancing in the breeze. Soft green in spring, then turns a soft beige in the hot summer, and I lea...Read More
I really loved the look of this grass in our landscape. It grows quite well in the desert southwest with some irrigation. But beware if ...Read More
I grow this grass in a pot, and bring it in for the winter. I also start it in the ground, dig it up, and bring it into the house to ove...Read More
this was one of the first plants I put in my new garden because it is so beautiful in the wind and I am in a windy area. It did very wel...Read More
Other common names for this grass that is native to California, New Mexico, Texas, Mexico, and Argentina: ponytail grass, horsetail gras...Read More
My comment is postive based on growability in the Central Valley of California. The only thing I don't care for, my wife loves it, is it...Read More
San Antonio, Tx.
One is growing in a huge container and from the top it looks almost like a huge green wig. I bought it at Walmart...Read More
The hardiness of this grass seems to depend on the age. Clumps that have not flowered are much hardier, making this a biennial for me. ...Read More