Personal pampas grass growing regaling to follow, but first let me tell you about Tybee Island’s “grass.” (No, don’t go there. I’m sure they have that kind too…)  Of course I’m talking about sea oats.  Green in the spring, this quintessential dune vegetation is ripe by late summer– and beautiful, is it not?
Sea oats are not lawn grasses (dune grasses to be sure, but not Bermuda or even St. Augustine, the lawn grass of the low country) but rather a grass more similar to barley, wheat, or rye, although inedible to my knowledge. Sea oats have a massive root system capable of holding the island together in hurricane storm surges and tropical winds.