Sales of this exotic garden plant are plummeting because it’s a secret signal you are a SWINGER
Sellers have claimed that sales of this particular plant have plummeted and some nurseries have stopped stocking it completely
SALES of an exotic garden plant have plummeted because it is believed to be a secret signal that swingers live in a house.
The unfortunate association of pampas grass with liberal sexual practices has reportedly led to a drop in sales.
Plant sellers have claimed that sales have plummeted and some nurseries have stopped stocking it completely as buyers avoid it for fear of the connotations, .
Palmstead Nurseries, a firm which sells plants to garden designers has said ten years ago it was selling an average of 550 of the plants every year but now are as low was 250.
Nick Coslett, the company's marketing manager, has said the plants have fallen out of fashion and it's connection to swinging has played a part.
He said: "I've got no evidence that it was ever used for that - I think it goes back to the fact that it was planted in people's front gardens.
"But there is that connotation, unfortunately."
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The pampas' association with swinging has been reportedly dismissed by fans of the plants but journalist Mariella Frostrup took to social media to say she had inadvertently made herself look like a swinger when she placed two outside her home in 2011.
She wrote: "Who knew that pampas grass plants are a signal to fellow swingers?
"Bought two and put them on my balcony.
"Neighbours have been swarming."
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