Wear protective gear when pruning and propagating, as the blades of grass are very sharp. Use gloves, eye protection, and long pants and sleeves. Propagating pampas grass is easily done by division.

Pampas grass, also known as Cortaderia selloana ... the large evergreen species benefits from hard pruning once a year in early spring. The RHS team add: "Cut them back as far as possible without ...