What's up everyone? Welcome back to Friday's episode of Epic Gardening. Happy Friday. Hope you're having a good day and hope you're going to have a good weekend. So today we're talking about pompous grass also known as Cortadaria Salawana.

Now in a lot of places in the world and especially the country,

Pompous grass is actually considered an invasive plant.

But if you're in an area where it is not

considered an invasive plant I would highly recommend that you tune into this

episode and learn what it is and how to grow it.

Now first a little bit of history.

It's actually named after the grassy plains of Pompous Argentina, which is where it comes from.

It was first introduced to Europe sometime in the late 1700s to mid 1800s,

and then arrived in California around 1848.

So it's been around for a while in my home state and then of course has spread across the United States as well.

Now there are a ton of different types of varieties of pompous grass, but there are some that are more popular and

more beautiful in my humble opinion than others. I'm going to go over a few and

then there's a couple imposter plant types that people often call

pompous grass although technically they do not qualify.

So first we've got Cordedaria celloana array o Lineata, which is a gold band pompous grass.

It's a slow growing compact evergreen grass and it grows to about six feet.

The reason it's called a gold band is because the slender leaves have narrow stripes of yellow that really pop.

Next we've got Cordedaria celloana alboliniata silver stripe pretty similar to gold band

in growth rate in height except for that the white stripes are present along the leaves instead of the gold stripes.

Now if you want one that's a bit smaller I would recommend Cortadary SLO on a pumilla,

which is the dwarf pompous grass variety. That grows only to about four and a half to five feet and then some

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