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Hi!
i am looking for recommendations for a tall screening grass - say between 6' and 10' tall. i am getting the idea, after looking at waaay too many catalogs, that the height given may not be how tall it stands, but how long the leaves/blades are.
i have a particularly awful area in back of the apartment complex we live in that i'd like to minimize tha impact of. (Well, i am trying to separate a big blue dumpster from my garden. At least a little.) i can't plant a tree or wody shrub because there is a transformer that cannot be blocked.
Grass seems like a good solution, but which one? i love the look of miscanthus "Silberfeder" (sp?), but is it tall enough? i've looked at "porcupine grass," arundo formosa, switchgrass...
How fast do they actually grow? i need to fill a space about 10' long - how many plants do i need? (i don't have big $ - technically it isn't even my property, but they let me do mostly what i want.)
Thank you for any and all advice. i need to do this soon!
amy
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