Pampus Grass

This was already here when we moved in.
It is kind of hard to get the scale from the picture but it is easily ten feet high and maybe ten feet in diameter.
I planted some babies in an area by the road that gets flooded in rains then gets dry as a bone. They are doing well but are only 4 or 5 feet high right now.
It is an extra hardy, hard to kill and my wife hates it, hates all of them actually.
We asked a local nursery worker what the best way to trim it was because it can't be cut easily with anything, believe me I tried. She told us that we should just burn it down in the fall and it would come back in the spring.

Update: On second thought it is probably closer to twelve or fourteen foot high.