Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' is 2009's Perennial Plant of the Year. How timely, since I've recently become very interested in shade-loving grasses!
Late last fall I brought home a Japanese blood grass and a variegated carex from the garden of a client who was expanding her patio and redesigning her now-smaller border. They are resting in the new raised veggie bed along with a couple of Key Lime Pie heucheras, two or three Stokesias, and possibly one or two other plants I can't recall at the moment. I hope they survived the winter!
Anyway, in learning more about the other two grasses, I kept running into Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' (a/k/a Gold-Striped Hakone Grass or Golden Japanese Forest Grass.) I thought it was lovely, and hope to add it to the garden this year.
To learn more about this shade-loving plant of the year (and how to pronouce it,) here's a YouTube video courtesy of Doug Green.
Late last fall I brought home a Japanese blood grass and a variegated carex from the garden of a client who was expanding her patio and redesigning her now-smaller border. They are resting in the new raised veggie bed along with a couple of Key Lime Pie heucheras, two or three Stokesias, and possibly one or two other plants I can't recall at the moment. I hope they survived the winter!
Anyway, in learning more about the other two grasses, I kept running into Hakonechloa macra 'Aureola' (a/k/a Gold-Striped Hakone Grass or Golden Japanese Forest Grass.) I thought it was lovely, and hope to add it to the garden this year.
To learn more about this shade-loving plant of the year (and how to pronouce it,) here's a YouTube video courtesy of Doug Green.
Happy Valentines Day to the Lawn Man, our families, to all of you, and to 2009's Perennial Plant of the year! Have a wonderful weekend!
