{"id":3567,"date":"2013-01-30T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2012-08-24T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:04:06","slug":"add-some-gold-to-your-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2013\/01\/30\/add-some-gold-to-your-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Some Gold to Your Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3568\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_8121.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3568\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3568\" title=\"IMG_8121\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_8121-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_8121-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/IMG_8121-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;All Gold&#39; Hakone Grass Planted in Container<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Is your garden awash\u00a0in\u00a0green foliage? A few well placed bright gold-leaf\u00a0shrubs or perennials can awaken almost any\u00a0dull green landscape spot. Here are two shrubs, Mellow Yellow\u00ae spirea and Gold Nugget barberry, plus one perennial (\u2018All Gold\u2019 hakone grass) that may add some flair.<\/p>\n<p>Mellow Yellow\u00ae Spirea (<em>Spiraea thunbergii<\/em> \u2018Ogon\u2019) forms small white flowers which cover the branches in mid-spring,\u00a0and\u00a0bright yellow narrow leaved foliage soon to follow. Branches\u00a0take on\u00a0a drooping habit. The yellow leaves fade to green in the summer, and all leaves turn burnt orange in the fall. It grows 4-5 feet in height and spread in full to partial sunlight. Mellow Yellow tolerates dry soils in summer with little leaf burn.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Nugget barberry (<em>Berberis thunbergii<\/em> \u2018Golden Nugget\u2019) offers\u00a0bright colored\u00a0foliage which does not burn in the summer heat.\u00a0Grow in full sun to\u00a0sharpen its golden hue. Barberry grows well in average soil as long as it is well drained. The foliage develops an orange cast in the cool autumn air. Golden Nugget is a low\u00a0slow\u00a0growing plant\u00a0for\u00a0the front border.<\/p>\n<p>All Gold hakone grass (<em>Hakonechloa macra<\/em> \u2018All Gold\u2019) shimmers in a partially shaded spot.\u00a0Foliage holds its spectacular color all summer, especially when sited in morning sunlight. All Gold grows as a neat, cascading mound, 12 inches high and 18 inches\u00a0wide. It prospers in compost rich soil with regular watering. Just tuck one or more among green leafy plants and see what happens.<\/p>\n<p>Pruning shrubs shortly after spring flowering as spirea and barberry bloom\u00a0on\u00a0last year&#8217;s\u00a0wood. Hakone grass is mowed down in\u00a0late fall to three inches in\u00a0height. Bees and butterflies visit spirea and barberry flowers in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your garden awash\u00a0in\u00a0green foliage? A few well placed bright gold-leaf\u00a0shrubs or perennials can awaken almost any\u00a0dull green landscape spot. Here are two shrubs, Mellow Yellow\u00ae spirea and Gold Nugget barberry, plus one perennial (\u2018All Gold\u2019 hakone grass) that may add some flair. Mellow Yellow\u00ae Spirea (Spiraea thunbergii \u2018Ogon\u2019) forms small white flowers which cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,869,747,749,920,601,630,921,705,646,7,113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567"}],"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=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}