Hakonechloa macra Aureola

Golden Hakone Grass                   

Golden Japanese Forest Grass

Hakonechloa macra Aureola is a beautiful grass forming low mounds of densely overlapping leaves of rich yellow with thin stripes of green on wiry red stems. It has green flowers in autumn.

The leaves emerge in spring with a pinkish tinge and turn a rich, golden-yellow colour in the summer, before fading to a soft orange-brown hue in the Autumn.

It grows to a height of 25cm, and spreads to 80cm. The greenish flowers while not exceptional appear in Autumn.

Ideally it likes partial shade, and is fully hardy.

This perennial dies back to below ground level each year in autumn, then fresh new growth appears again in spring