“So what happens if I am a great fan of Pampas grass?”
Plant that stuff on every square inch of your glorious, naked lawn. I’d like to see the city of Lynnwood come and try to cut it down. They’ll be at it for days and days!
http://www.allaboutlawns.com/grass-types/beware-of-pampas-grass.php
Beware of Pampas Grass
Pampas grass grows quickly and flowers nicely, but despite its convenience, pampas can aggressively take over your garden. If you can, it’s probably best to live without it.
A large perennial grass, native to South America, pampas grass grows in large clumps eight to ten feet high. In the summer it can bear silvery-white or pinkish silken plumes that grow up to 12 feet high.
If dry sunny conditions are common, pampas grass grows like no other grass type. In a very short time a whole house can go from being totally exposed to cozily secluded.
But the pampas grass tide is hard to turn back. With plants that produce millions of seeds, pampas grass has a remarkable ability to reach distant open spaces and blanket them with very rapid growth. Lawns and flowerbeds are quickly overcome.
And problems don’t stop there. Pampas’s leaves are notoriously sharp. If you must plant pampas grass, avoid planting near walkways where blades will cut the innocent passers-by. And be warned: sometimes its dense impenetrable bushes provide habitat for rats and mice.
With all that required caution, the pampas grass fix seems hardly worth the trouble. In fact, if you search for pampas grass on the Internet, one of the first sites that pops up is the National Park Service web page, encouraging you not to grow it.
“sometimes its dense impenetrable bushes provide habitat for rats and mice.”
So can other bushes, and tall flowers. And window wells can be an attraction for snakes, and other wildlife, but they don’t require them to be covered. Where I live, the city has decorative tall grass and thick bushes growing downtown on the corners. Why discriminate against regular grass?