Toe Toe Grass is the New Zealand version of Pampas Grass. That`s no joke. The genus Cortaderia (= Pampas Grass) got a very strange distribution: the southern tip of South America, New Zealand and New Guinee. Once all these regions and Antarctica formed the supercontinent Gondwana. The Pampas Grasses must have developed before this continent broke apart. When their parts of the continent went ways of their own, they, too, develeoped individually. For sure once existed Pampas Grasses also in Antarctica but they died out like all other plants of Antarctica. 

There are four varieties of Pampas Grass in New Zealand, and for all of them the Maori name Toe Toe is used. They are all smaller versions of the Southamerican Pampas Grass, and they all lack the invasiveness of the latter (Southamerican Pampas Grass is already banned in several countries because of being an invasive alien plant). In Central Europe it is generaly not hardy except in a few very mild regions. Usualy it is kept here as a tub plant that is kept in a sheltered place during winter. We kept our seedlings during winter in an unheated polytunneloten and we kept them very dry. They did well there, so it seems the problem is once again not frost but winter wetness in combination with frost.

We sell one year old plants that survived their first winter here.