Becca wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>
>> We've got a clump growing out behind the greenhouse that's been there
>> about ten years IIRC. Seldom use it anymore but we've given starts
>> away by the hundreds. Local Vietnamese family runs, of all things, a
>> Cajun restaurant. Offered them some lemon grass as they mentioned they
>> had been buying it in a nearby city. They jumped on the deal and now
>> have a lot of it growing behind the restaurant.
>
> In the Houston area, my lemongrass grew without a problem. Here in
> Louisiana, it is was 5 degrees colder over the winter, and it died back.
> It grew back in the spring and it looks great.
>
> One of the golfers, driving by on the cart path, asked me if it was
> Pampas grass.
>
> Becca
You must live in North Louisiana. I live in SW Louisiana and it's a
strange winter when we get more than a very short freeze down around
30F. We had an ice storm here in, I think, 1997. Knocked three of our
oak trees down, were without power for three or four days, and had to
borrow a chain saw to get the cars out of the garage. If we ever have
another one I'm moving back to South Texas.

George