Fall Dividing All Gold Hakonechloa Forest Grasses - November 2023
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The star of our garden are the All Gold Hakonechloa Japanese Forest Grasses . I have two colonies of them - one in front and one in back. I have a dozen places where I could use more, but they are always very expensive and rarely go on sale. So...I thought they might be a good candidate for Fall Division. I selected one to test this Fall - in the front IB2DWs bed. And only chose one because I haven't divided these before. They've been really hard to get established, so I didn't want to put too many of them at risk. But...if this works this year, I'll divide a few in the Spring and then even more come Fall 2024. Here's the before - I was targeting the largest one in the back. And, here's the after -below. My process for this was to first tie-up the grass blades, so I could get a good shot at digging out the clump. Below is the grass all tied-up. I opted to divide it FIRST into half. Then, I took one of the halves and divided that again. Leaving me wit