{"id":114,"date":"2013-03-29T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=114"},"modified":"2012-09-03T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T01:14:22","slug":"golden-hakone-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2013\/03\/29\/golden-hakone-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Hakone Grass Is Worth The Extra Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3669\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0421.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3669\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3669\" title=\"DSC_0421\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0421-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0421-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/DSC_0421-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hakonechloa &#39;Aureola&#39; Awakens Shady Garden Spot<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Awaken dark zones in your shade garden with this wonderful golden treasure from Japan. Golden hakonegrass (<em>Hakonechloa macra<\/em> &#8216;Aureola&#8217;) grows 12-18 inches tall and 18-24 inches wide\u00a0in a cascading mound form.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Very thin green stripes (veins)\u00a0line the mid-rib of the \u00bd inch wide golden leaf\u00a0blades. Tiny, relatively ininsignificant, floral spikes (inflorescences) appear for a short time in late summer. The grass blades\u00a0take on\u00a0a pink to reddish tinge in the cool\u00a0fall air\u00a0before all\u00a0vegetation withers\u00a0away for a long winter\u2019s nap.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Golden hakone prospers in moist, humus-rich, well-drained soil. Contrarily, it grows poorly in compact heavy clay soils. Hakone prefers a partially shaded garden spot. Feed with a water soluble fertilizer (Miracle -Gro\u00ae, Schultz\u00ae, or\u00a0Hollytone\u00ae) at package directions every 4-6 weeks from early spring\u00a0thru mid-summer.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>In its first year golden hakone starts off very\u00a0slowly, and spreads\u00a0from underground stolons. Soil moisture is in\u00a0maximum need the first two years to successfully establish hakone grass. This extra\u00a0attention\u00a0will be\u00a0worth\u00a0your patience.\u00a0Hakone grass\u00a0will rarely trespass on\u00a0spaces occupied by neighboring hosta, astilbe, heuchera, and others in the shade garden.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Golden hakone is rarely bothered by disease or insect pests and is not troubled by deer. &#8216;Aureola&#8217; hakone grass was selected the Perennial Plant of the Year in 2009.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Awaken dark zones in your shade garden with this wonderful golden treasure from Japan. Golden hakonegrass (Hakonechloa macra &#8216;Aureola&#8217;) grows 12-18 inches tall and 18-24 inches wide\u00a0in a cascading mound form. \u00a0 Very thin green stripes (veins)\u00a0line the mid-rib of the \u00bd inch wide golden leaf\u00a0blades. Tiny, relatively ininsignificant, floral spikes (inflorescences) appear for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,778,628,920,688,625,202,843,630,706,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}