Rainy day last Friday, but my wife needed to run into the store. I drove around the parking lot to look at the various ornamental grass plants that had been incorporated into the landscape. Quite a popular item these days. They have a certain architectural quality. Vertical lines, with various shades of green. In the fall, the grasses often change to a golden colour that fits in with the seasonal colours. In a breeze, the grasses sway to and fro, creating movement and attracting the eye.
Some ornamental grasses like the ones in the first picture tend to stay in clumps, spreading a little bit each year.
Some like these pictured above are very vigorous and grow underground stems very prolifically. When they start to spread, they can leave the confines of the grass "bed" and escape into the lawn. Here they can become a weed. Left unchallenged they will infiltrate the green lawn and "discolour" the turf.
An unwanted grass in the "grass" can be a harder than normal pest to remove. In the case of this particular grass, it would have been best to have some kind of edging to prevent the spread of the roots.
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