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Pennisetum grasses dead or alive?

MeomyeMeomye Posts: 949
edited June 2020 in Problem solving
Last year I purchased two beautiful purple Pennisetums, one of them was 'Fireworks' and  the other very similar. One was in a large container, the other in the ground. At present they both look like clumps of dead straw! I keep expecting to see signs of life but feel it should of happened by now. Does anyone keep these successfully? If so how please? t i a

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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    Mine have been very very slow to get going this year. Just enough happening to give me hope but only just. I’m assuming that they were sulking after the wet winter and then went on pause with all the very dry weather and topsy  turkey temperatures.

    We've had ours a few years and they are always quite late to get started but not as slow as this year. If the wet winter had done for them, I would have expected them to be rotting off by now but they feel quite firm as if the roots are still ok.
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
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