Beautiful, aren’t they? Popular garden plants grown by a lot of my parents’ friends.
Don’t forget to leave your keys in the bowl on your way in.
Did your parents have a lot of friends come over in the evenings?
Do they also own, easy wipe-down furnishings?
Keep an eye out for Jin Sakai.
Is this really a thing? We had one in our garden when I was small but my folks were deffo not in the Swap Shop.
Fond of pineapples, were they?
Did they also store their pineapples upside down and outside?
TIL Pampas Grass was a sign you were a swinger
I bet your parents have a massive stash of VHS tapes in the loft nobody else knows about.
Lynn, these are sex people!
Yes. Very proud. They kept inviting folks round to admire them. Evening only though so I was always in bed when they came.
What’s the origin of pampas grass being a swingers destination? I grew up up seeing these as an unusual but exotic (for then) decoration for many suburban gardens in the 1960s but my own kids, older teenagers in the late 90’s made this association with swingers but have no idea where they first heard that. It now has a life of its own on reddit so is mostly an ironic joke but really where did this start?
Tell your parents that we have pampas grass too please
My parents had a massive one in the front garden in the 80s/90s then one year my mum was adamant it had to go. It was replaced by a willow tree.
That’s bait.
We had a lovely great big Pampas Grass on the front of our home when I was a kid. I know that the village was a noted swapping destination, mentioned in the News of the World.
I can’t help but think if my parents had been involved in it, my Mum would have told me by now.
My husband shares me and I’m sad to announce I’ve never been to a a house that has pampas grass. I think it’s a myth.
That stuff was like razor wire. You took your life in your hands when trying to rescue an action man or a crashed lego spaceship from it’s depths.
Glad I finally know what these are called! I used to call them feather duster trees.
My dad actually dug ours up and replaced it with shrubbery when someone made a jokey reference to what it was supposed to signify.
Swore he had no idea.
There was a massive one of these in our front garden when we moved house when I was about 12 or so, my parents *hated* it. My dad cut it down, tried to poison it, even set light to it with petrol, which was entertaining at least and got the fire brigade over, to no avail. In the end he just kept it really short and chopped it back regularly.
When I was old enough to drive, I wrapped a huge piece of chain around it, attached it to the Land Rover I had at the time and pulled the entire thing out of the ground, the roots went down a metre or so, it was huge.
Shit, I loooove pampas grass! 😭
Why do I have the urge to hide in that bush before killing Mongols?
Lol OP!! You are being coy…but when you know, YOU KNOW!! Thanks for the laugh!
Serious question — how do you maintain these things? We’ve got one that’s nearly as tall as our bungalow. Do we just cut the whole thing into a ball shape?
Wait, from the comments, is this a swingers thing?
I had a lot of “aunts and uncles” growing up, and they to this day have hot tub parties and go on cruises all the time… :0
My wife originally planned on having this as her wedding flower. I’m glad she asked me my opinion before telling our decorator.
We planted up some pampas (Evita) in the front and back garden a few years ago. Looks great & quite amusing when people of a certain age presume our hobbies (couldn’t be further from the truth, but makes me giggle).
They’re not called tickle sticks for nothing
Yes and those sharp ass stems cut my hand up all the time 😢
As a child I was of course totally unaware of the connection but really liked the look of the plant, and would occasionally ask if we could grow it in the front garden. Parents always refused.
I used to point out gardens that had the grass. “Look dad, they’ve got pampas grass, why can’t we grow it”
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Beautiful, aren’t they? Popular garden plants grown by a lot of my parents’ friends.
Don’t forget to leave your keys in the bowl on your way in.
Did your parents have a lot of friends come over in the evenings?
Do they also own, easy wipe-down furnishings?
Keep an eye out for Jin Sakai.
Is this really a thing? We had one in our garden when I was small but my folks were deffo not in the Swap Shop.
Fond of pineapples, were they?
Did they also store their pineapples upside down and outside?
TIL Pampas Grass was a sign you were a swinger
I bet your parents have a massive stash of VHS tapes in the loft nobody else knows about.
Lynn, these are sex people!
Yes. Very proud. They kept inviting folks round to admire them. Evening only though so I was always in bed when they came.
What’s the origin of pampas grass being a swingers destination? I grew up up seeing these as an unusual but exotic (for then) decoration for many suburban gardens in the 1960s but my own kids, older teenagers in the late 90’s made this association with swingers but have no idea where they first heard that. It now has a life of its own on reddit so is mostly an ironic joke but really where did this start?
Tell your parents that we have pampas grass too please
My parents had a massive one in the front garden in the 80s/90s then one year my mum was adamant it had to go. It was replaced by a willow tree.
That’s bait.
We had a lovely great big Pampas Grass on the front of our home when I was a kid. I know that the village was a noted swapping destination, mentioned in the News of the World.
I can’t help but think if my parents had been involved in it, my Mum would have told me by now.
My husband shares me and I’m sad to announce I’ve never been to a a house that has pampas grass. I think it’s a myth.
That stuff was like razor wire. You took your life in your hands when trying to rescue an action man or a crashed lego spaceship from it’s depths.
Glad I finally know what these are called! I used to call them feather duster trees.
My dad actually dug ours up and replaced it with shrubbery when someone made a jokey reference to what it was supposed to signify.
Swore he had no idea.
There was a massive one of these in our front garden when we moved house when I was about 12 or so, my parents *hated* it. My dad cut it down, tried to poison it, even set light to it with petrol, which was entertaining at least and got the fire brigade over, to no avail. In the end he just kept it really short and chopped it back regularly.
When I was old enough to drive, I wrapped a huge piece of chain around it, attached it to the Land Rover I had at the time and pulled the entire thing out of the ground, the roots went down a metre or so, it was huge.
Shit, I loooove pampas grass! 😭
Why do I have the urge to hide in that bush before killing Mongols?
Lol OP!! You are being coy…but when you know, YOU KNOW!! Thanks for the laugh!
Serious question — how do you maintain these things? We’ve got one that’s nearly as tall as our bungalow. Do we just cut the whole thing into a ball shape?
Wait, from the comments, is this a swingers thing?
I had a lot of “aunts and uncles” growing up, and they to this day have hot tub parties and go on cruises all the time… :0
My wife originally planned on having this as her wedding flower. I’m glad she asked me my opinion before telling our decorator.
We planted up some pampas (Evita) in the front and back garden a few years ago. Looks great & quite amusing when people of a certain age presume our hobbies (couldn’t be further from the truth, but makes me giggle).
They’re not called tickle sticks for nothing
Yes and those sharp ass stems cut my hand up all the time 😢
As a child I was of course totally unaware of the connection but really liked the look of the plant, and would occasionally ask if we could grow it in the front garden. Parents always refused.
I used to point out gardens that had the grass. “Look dad, they’ve got pampas grass, why can’t we grow it”
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