July 3, 2019 Clearance Plants, Gilbert Laing Meason, Michael Keens, Lambertus Bobbink, William Henry Davies, Grow in the Dark by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, Hakonechloa All Gold, Richard Evans Schultes, and Calvin Sperling
Sometimes the plant gods smile on you with a clearance sale featuring something truly spectacular like Japanese Forest Grass or in this case, Hakonechloa 'All Gold'.
My local Lowes was clearancing them for $3 a pop - and it was just what the plant doctor ordered to dress up our cabin up north.
In 2009, my garden idol, Margaret Roach tweeted, "Another plant I cannot garden without: Hakonechloa 'All Gold.' Solid gold in the shade."
She's right.
Brevities
#OTD On this day in 1796, Gilbert Laing Meason was born.
Laing Meason was a friend of Sir Walter Scott and he invented the term 'landscape…
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