to think that pampas grass

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is a well known indicator of swinging. Or is it just an urban myth? I was shocked to discover none of my friends knew this and then had to explain how i did know.

urrgh
my auntie had some out front
Does that mean swirly patterned carpet and avocado bathroom suites are also a sign of swinging?

I used to think it was very pretty as a child and would ask my mum if we could have some in our garden. She would laugh and say no. I only found out why a couple of years ago

My CM (Auntie Audrey) also had a swirly carpet(red if that matters) and an avocado bathroom suite.

She really was shagging the neighbours wasn't she?
I remember her taking me to coffee mornings at a house with a woman named Sandy.
They'd talk about baking.
Is that code for, 'I'd love to lick your fanny'?

Gibbon - you are a meany pegs. Scarily, DH likes it and won't let me poor diesel on it - the only thing known to kill the bloody stuff.

pour not poor - doh

Hey you can get PINK Pampas grass! What does that mean??

There's a whole courtyard of splendid specimens in Dulwich College.

Thinking about it logically it must be an urban myth. I imagine that people who swing are at least a little choosy about who they swing with and don't accept random couple off the street who happen to have seen their pampas grass. And if you have a swingers' party in your house then presumably you would give your address, with a house name or number and not just the street name and "look for the pampas grass".

I think that pampas grass was a new and trendy thing at around the same time that swinging became well known so they became linked.

Really? We had a massive one in our garden when we moved in to our house, but I had it taken out by the gardeners because the leaves were like bloody razors. God knows what my (fit, 20-something, Polish) gardeners think of me

AS a teenager I spent quite a bit of time up a tree (long story ) and on one sunny afternoon, found my favourite position way up in the top branches.

The neighbours and some friends from the village picked that afternoon to have drinks in their garden and in the clear quiet afternoon in a sleepy village, so their voices carried, discuss in detail their swinging exploits.
For a looong time.
I was too scared to climb down and spent what I remember as hours trapped in the tree hearing their revelations.

I can't remember if either of them had Pampas Grasses in their Gardens!

We have Pampas Grass in our garden. DH is going to dig it up next week.

Anyone want/need it?

Or the Pampas Grass!>

Our neighbours have it in their garden when I was a kid. Funnily enough the dad ran off with one of the school mums and his ex-wife ended up marrying her ex-husband, so perhaps there's something in that theory.

We saw a car with a box of decorative tissues displayed on the parcel shelf and DH reckons it's code for someone into dogging.

The council has planted pampas grass in the communal gardens of the council flats up the road

To "maintain" your pampas grass, you can set light to the old foliage in situ. Brings a whole new meaning to "burning bush"

We moved into a house with a huge pampas grass. I wanted to get rid of it but a family of frogs seem to live in it so I left it. I don't know if they are swinging frogs.

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Loving the pampas tbh. Want it in my garden, just to tease the neighbours.

Pampas grass is evil. It cuts your face when you hide behind it and sits in the middle of a perfectly good lawn like a malevolent stalky demon.

Gibbon - I'll send you ours if you like.

After years of having two giant bloody pampas grass bushes in our garden (not there when we moved in - didn't plant them - ??) I finally managed to hack down and dig them up recently. Would have been easier to give in and start swinging!

Iggi Maybe it was planted by some hopeful swingers?