{"id":160,"date":"2010-03-28T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/03\/28\/golden-hakonegrass-lights-up-the-shade-garden\/"},"modified":"2010-03-28T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T00:26:00","slug":"golden-hakonegrass-lights-up-the-shade-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/03\/28\/golden-hakonegrass-lights-up-the-shade-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Hakonegrass Lights Up The Shade Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S6_1SH66sdI\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/83KU-HGhpE4\/s1600\/Hakone+%27Aureola%273.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453847365481574866\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S6_1SH66sdI\/AAAAAAAAAMI\/83KU-HGhpE4\/s320\/Hakone+%27Aureola%273.JPG\" \/><\/a>Light up dark areas in your shade garden with this wonderful golden ornamental grass from Japan. Golden hakonegrass (<em>Hakonechloa macra<\/em> &#8216;Aureola&#8217;) grows 12-18 inches tall and 18-24 inches wide with a mounding cascading form.<br \/>Very thin green stripes (veins) flow the length of the \u00bd inch wide golden leaf blade. The cool nights in the fall adds a pink to reddish tinge to the blades before all dies back for a long winter\u2019s nap. Tiny, relatively inconspicuous, floral spikes appear for a short time in late summer.<br \/>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, receiving 2 hours of early morning or 1\/2 day of dappled sunlight.<br \/>Golden hakone grows slowly, spreading by stolons and rarely trespasses spaces occupied by neighboring hosta, astilbe, heuchera and other companions in the shade garden.<br \/>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light up dark areas in your shade garden with this wonderful golden ornamental grass from Japan. Golden hakonegrass (Hakonechloa macra &#8216;Aureola&#8217;) grows 12-18 inches tall and 18-24 inches wide with a mounding cascading form.Very thin green stripes (veins) flow the length of the \u00bd inch wide golden leaf blade. The cool nights in the fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}