Pampas grass in the front garden?

[dub16v]

j4ckos mate said:

Pampas grass means you or your missus is fond of additional rumpy pumpy

sausages nailed into the grass means youve upset someone on pistonheads

car parked on the grass means your a bit council

The irony is strong here.

[drivin_me_nuts]

Pampas grass signifies swinging. Bull rushes along side indicate a need for viagra and natural substitutes.

[Ayahuasca]

If you have ever had to cut a path through 15 foot high pampas grass you will regard it has a hateful, hateful, vile thing.

On the other hand, the Telegraph does indeed confirm its swinging properties.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8923...

[SydneyBridge]

now I know why my parents were always trying to burn the stuff down when I was a child, we had two massive bushes (no pun intended....) in our garden.

[Ayahuasca]

SydneyBridge said:

now I know why my parents were always trying to burn the stuff down when I was a child, we had two massive bushes (no pun intended....) in our garden.

If you burn it it just grows back.

[eldar]

Ayahuasca said:

If you burn it it just grows back.

It does, just grows faster! A small thermo nuclear device is required to kill it.

[guindilias]

My office has 4 pampas grass plants out the front. Not sure what's going on, really - over 500 people work here.

[Dogwatch]

eldar said:

Ayahuasca said:

If you burn it it just grows back.

It does, just grows faster! A small thermo nuclear device is required to kill it.

In the 70's we had very respectable elderly neighbours who had Pampas grass in the front garden and she (i/c gardening) set fire to the plant every year. I assumed it was some sort of regeneration process.

[sjabrown]

First thing I did when I moved in to my house was to dig out the pampas grass!

[Ayahuasca]

eldar said:

Ayahuasca said:

If you burn it it just grows back.

It does, just grows faster! A small thermo nuclear device is required to kill it.

The only thing that kills it is shade. It needs direct sunlight to grow.

[eldar]

Ayahuasca said:

The only thing that kills it is shade. It needs direct sunlight to grow.

Nuclear winter?

[wildcat45]

It was the first thing I had the builders dig out when I moved into my present house and had a driveway made.

It took some digging up and apart from the fact it got broken and tatty every winter I knew what it suggested.

The builders had a good laugh with me about it as they got rid of it. Comments about the previous owners, and what they may or may not have got up to.

There was an embarrased silence when I told them this had been my folks house and that I had grown up here.

[northwest monkey]

SydneyBridge said:

now I know why my parents were always trying to burn the stuff down when I was a child, we had two massive bushes (no pun intended....) in our garden.

Massive bushes were very popular in the 70s.

[guindilias]

I have the Betamax tape to demonstrate.

[craig_m67]

wildcat45 said:

It was the first thing I had the builders dig out when I moved into my present house and had a driveway made.

It took some digging up and apart from the fact it got broken and tatty every winter I knew what it suggested.

The builders had a good laugh with me about it as they got rid of it. Comments about the previous owners, and what they may or may not have got up to.

There was an embarrased silence when I told them this had been my folks house and that I had grown up here.

Ha, that made me laugh.


.... You're mums house maybe

[Pints]

So where would one go about acquiring such grass?

[jfdi]

Obviously your "friends" would be happy to give you some

[john2443]

Ayahuasca said:

If you have ever had to cut a path through 15 foot high pampas grass you will regard it has a hateful, hateful, vile thing.

On the other hand, the Telegraph does indeed confirm its swinging properties.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/8923...

On the other other hand Wiki says it's an urban myth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortaderia_selloana Who do we believe?!

[Hoofy]

craig_m67 said:

wildcat45 said:

It was the first thing I had the builders dig out when I moved into my present house and had a driveway made.

It took some digging up and apart from the fact it got broken and tatty every winter I knew what it suggested.

The builders had a good laugh with me about it as they got rid of it. Comments about the previous owners, and what they may or may not have got up to.

There was an embarrased silence when I told them this had been my folks house and that I had grown up here.

Ha, that made me laugh.


.... You're mums house maybe

"You're"!? That's a new one. Perhaps try "Your'reur'e" to cover all bases next time.

[wildcat45]

I don't understand. Did I get an apostrophe wrong somewhere?