Three (More) All Gold Hakonechloa Macra Grasses Planted - May 2025

There aren't a ton of planting posts that I can publish that check the box on three 'to-do items', but the three ornamental grasses that I planted in the backyard recently get that accomplished. Those three grasses are All Gold Hakonechloa macra grasses that I bought at the recent Morton Arboretum plant sale.

The three relevant items are: 4. Finishing the garden edits, 10. Work on garden 'legibility' and 20. Stay focused on repetition vs. new.

When I bought these three bright grasses, I wasn't sure where I was going to put them. Somewhere in the backyard or perhaps along the boardwalk. After thinking about it for weeks, I opted to place them at the end of the border that houses the rest of these All Gold Grasses. Extend the row closer to the house.

At the end of April, I posted a photo showing the nine grasses in this border. With these three new ones, we're now at twelve All Golds in back.

Here are the three new ones staged for planting:

All Gold Hakonechloa grasses are priced at a premium at nurseries, so the $19.99 at the Morton Arboretum Sale was a good deal.  

To plant these, I first pulled back the mulch, then dug five-dollar-holes, amend them with municipal biosolids and planted them high.

Below is a look at the three new ones planted.  Interestingly...they're a different color than the returning ones - less bright, more green.