How to Grow Golden Variegated Hakone Grass

Prepare a suitable site for planting your golden variegated hakone grass. A partially shaded spot with slightly moist soil is best. It can even tolerate deep shade, but this results in a plant that may be a little leggy.

Dig a hole with a trowel about twice the size of the golden variegated hakone grass root ball. Amend the soil with organic compost and mix in a slow-release fertilizer. Firm the soil around the roots, but do not bury too deep. You want the soil line on the root ball to be even with the ground level.

Water the plant in in thoroughly. Water it every day there after for a week, decreasing to every other day for another week. Following the second week, water only when the top inch of soil is dry.

Cut back foliage to 2 inches above the soil with garden shears, when the plant turns brown in the winter. Golden variegated hakone grass is a perennial and its 18 to 24-inch foliage is brown during its winter dormant period. all of the foliage turns brown in the winter. It regrows from its roots in the spring.