2026 Priority Project #3: Finish the Pizza Oven Bed "Garden Edit" - March 2026

We're moving on to my #3 Priority project for 2026.  

First one was to stop fighting nature (nature finds a way) with Oakleaf Hydrangeas.

Second was to re-cut the edges of the front yard island bed.  

Today, I'm posting the details of #3:  finishing a project that I started two years ago:  A Garden edit.  

I wrote about this earlier this year and talked about how I relocated a colony of All Gold Hakonechloa Japanese Forest Grasses from around the tree swing tree and moved them to the other side of the yard.  I moved them right before I began excavation for the backyard pizza oven.  Now that the oven foundation is built out, I had the bed extended around it last year, creating a long empty border.  

My plan has been to fill that border with a series of Hakonechloa Macra (straight variety) grasses.  Both from the Oak tree 'backwards' and 'forward'.  

Here below is the area that needs to be populated:

And here, below, is an annotated version of that photo.  The purple circles show the exisiting four Hakonechloa Macra (straight variety) grasses.  I count probably twelve (12) that need to go in to fill the border.

I first came across the straight green variety at Roy Diblik's Northwind Perennial Farm up in Wisconsin in 2021 and bought three.  Bought four more in 2023.  There are just four left.    

Last year, I didn't see any on the tables at Northwind, so I never bought them.  Here's hoping I see them this year on one of my visits to the nursery.