Hakonechloa macra, the ever-graceful Japanese forest grass, is one of the best low-maintenance ornamental grasses you can grow, but timing your cutback makes all the difference. If you want that soft, flowing texture looking sharp again this season, restraint first, scissors second. Leave the old foliage standing through winter. It protects the crown and adds movement and colour when much of the garden is asleep. Then in late winter to early spring, just before the fresh shoots begin to push thr
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Hakonechloa macra, the ever-graceful Japanese forest grass, is one of the best low-maintenance ornamental grasses you can grow, but timing your cutback makes all the difference. If you want that soft, flowing texture looking sharp again this season, restraint first, scissors second. Leave the old foliage standing through winter. It protects the crown and adds movement and colour when much of the garden is asleep. Then in late winter to early spring, just before the fresh shoots begin to push thr
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