So, do you grow Pampas Grass?????
By bulbaholic
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Copied from the BBC web site: no, we don’t grow pampas grass.
Mariella Frostrup, the host of Radio 4’s Open Book, says she had no idea pampas grass plants had sexual connotations, when she placed them outside her flat.
Placing the plants on show, is apparently an invitation to other swingers.
Frostrup, who just liked the look of the plants, said a dinner guest explained to her what the grass could signal.
She added: “What I found out was that I had actually signposted my flat on both sides as a swingers’ paradise”.
Frostrup told the BBC’s PM programme she had a huge response on Twitter when she tweeted about the mix-up.
30 Nov, 2011
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i heard this ~ apparently its because she has put 2 of them on the balcony ~ i understood one would have been alright but two gave a signal she didnt expect!!!!
30 Nov, 2011
At least she didnt have the awful job of digging them up after 10 years to get rid of them !
Never again.
1 Dec, 2011
Hello Diane.. ;0)
1 Dec, 2011
I didn't know that about Pampas grass. I wonder why it would give out such a message. I think it looks rather boring myself :o(
1 Dec, 2011
I didn't know about the pampass grass until I read it in the newspaper yesterday.
I will have to make sure I do not put 2 on show, as we don't want people getting the wrong idea.
1 Dec, 2011
Now who do I know with 2? well well well !!!
1 Dec, 2011
I didn't know about them either, and i have 2.
Well i know what i will be doing this weekend, digging up pampass grass.
Have been trying to tell husband Robin that they need to go as they have become so big since we moved here.
1 Dec, 2011
Anyone know where to buy pampas grass, say two for the price of one ;-)))))
1 Dec, 2011
Cheeky Bulba! lol
1 Dec, 2011
Lol, i cut mine back last June and did actually place another piece in my garden, it didn`t take through lack of water, reading this I guess thats a blessing in disguise...
1 Dec, 2011
lol @ bulbaholic
1 Dec, 2011
I don't know about pampas grass (phew I've only got one) but I put red christmas lights around my front door once much to the amusement of friends and family.
1 Dec, 2011
lol :D
1 Dec, 2011
Now I have to wonder about all of the old estates here in the Valley of the Sun that have had a pair of huge pampas grass bushes flanking their driveway entrances since before I was born!! ; D
4 Dec, 2011
The older "gentry" were well known for 'that sort of thing' but it just wasn't spoken about!
4 Dec, 2011
Like as not, the ones here in the Valley are simply copies of what was seen when Junior went to Oxford, without understanding what was meant by it....Or maybe not!
6 Dec, 2011
Well as a member of the GoY community with their finger on the pulse...No ..no not the blood pressure monitor...
Pampas & swinging were both popular at the same time, Pampas has fallen out of favour.....
6 Dec, 2011
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