Like the rest of us, they are waiting for summer to arrive.
Panicums - especially these, love the heat!
Be patient - they should get going soon.
A.

"Panicums - especially these, love the heat!"

I think A has Panicum on the brain these days, but has the diagnosis right. PFG is a Pennisetum, and a tropical one at that. When the heat of summer arrives, it will explode.

LOL .... Donn, thanks for that correction.
You're right - I really must have panicums on my mind lately!!
I think the blackflies are scrambling my brains.
a.

Can I give pFG any m.gro?

I wouldn't give it any ferts at all. The grass tends to be a little floppy anyway, and ferts will only accentuate that.

my question is how to keep them through the winter here in Indy? I bought 10 of them for my patio, dug through the ridiculous clay and now I am hearing that they are annuals????? I really miss my home state of FL!!!!

greenish wrote "now I am hearing that they are annuals?"

Not so. They are perennials.

But they are *tender* perennials.

So, in cold climates, they're grown as "if" they were annuals because, if grown as a perennial, they would die a cold death.