I wouldn’t consider it foo foo at all.

Just very sloooowwwww growing.

I would consider something different for a pot combo. What about creeping Jenny? Same color and cascading too. Would suggest sweet potato but they tend to crowd everything else out!

Why would you suggest something different - what am I missing here? Agree about the sweet potato, it took over a pot of geranium last year. I'll have to loop up creeping Jenny.

As GH said, Hakone grass is slow growing, so getting a full look to the pot after division may take a while. It is a beautiful plant, and I chop chunks off the side of mine periodically and they settle in to the new spot without pause IME. The original clump is unaffected. It does need some shade to look its best. Golden creeping Jenny IME is a bit of a menace in the ground due to its desire to take over the world, but it does well in pots.

Oh hakone, the bane of my existence. I came to realize those displays you are seeing, such as the planter you describe, are put together by those people who can easily drop $100 for their arrangement; I go into panic mode when it goes over $10! Sweet potato vine is my friend - cheap, fast growing, and hack back at whim.

Our HAKONE "All Gold" is only in the ground and I consider it a great part shade plant.

Here is one clump as of today:

I used to use that grass in pots to put in the planter bench on the patio - we stopped using the bench in 2012 I think.... I used to plant to grass into the garden at the end of the season. Unfortunately, our dog Cole (who we got in 2012) thinks it is dog-candy and eats it to the ground! We don't grow it anymore! :-) I used to get relatively cheap smaller pots of it at Home Depot - have you tried looking there? I have no idea what it costs these days as there's no point in buying any when Cole is around!

I did plant it in the planter -- I had to divide it in order to frame the perimeter of the pot with it. Looks great! I had one extra division (two plants = four divisions), and I planted it beside another one I have in the west-facing bed. They seem to be just sitting there -- not dying, but not really doing anything -- while the potted divisions looks fantastic. I'll have to plan what to do with them in the fall when its pot clean-up time -- I'd like to repeat this planting next year, so I'm thinking maybe just take out the elephant ears and plant the whole big plastic pot (have a plastic pot lining a ceramic planter) so as not to disturb the roots much.

I have found it to be iffy in some spots but when you finally find the right location for it there's no stopping it. I have two enormous areas of 'All Gold' that I take sections out of every year and they are both always still too big. Mine wanted more light than most descriptions called for.

I just recently purchased some ‘all gold’ which I wanted for a my sunnier areas. Was thrilled/surprised to find it half off at lowes. I hope they will be happy where planted.

I have ‘Aureola’ in my shaded areas, which I’ve divided from many times. It’s my fav grass. Here are the original plants that I’ve taken div from...

Division

Oh, my, GH. Have you seen Thyme2Dig’s photo of her Aralia Sun King with her 6’ tall DH next to it? Hers is the size of a medium sized shrub, about 6’-7’ in all directions. (Just wanted to give you a bit of warning before it got too large to move easily.)

Both of those are really nice compositions.

mxk3, do we get to see the planter?

Thanks Babs, Yes I remember her pics.

This was not a planned combo as I planted the grass and hosta before the aralia had emerged (oops lol). They were planted as part of a combo in the opposite direction.

I can easily move the grass and hosta if need be. But at the rate the aralia is growing, it may be years down the road lol.

It did catch my eye coming around the corner and that’s when I had to get a pic.

So...I’ll just enjoy the ‘unplanned surprise’ combo while it lasts ;0)

Sure wish I had more of those!

Cats and dogs treat it like a pet salad bar. Ironically, my only surviving clump is in the (creature infested) woods. S....l...o...w...but tough.

Mine is a drought victim. While stipas, molinia, muehlenbergia, (sp?) and panicum are holding up, the sedges, hakone and uncinia have either crisped...or simply vanished.

(And I can almost guarantee, given the location of this property, that it benefits from an in ground, automatic sprinkler system....sorry Campanula).

Rouge -- that photo has such a calming, relaxing vibe to it...I'd be so chill if I owned that garden.

I've had good luck with hakone in Zone 5b, here's a ring of 3 varieties (All Gold, Aureola, and one other I can't recall) circling an Inaba Shidare JM. Agree it's way overpriced and maybe a little slow the first couple years. But after a few years I have one patch of Aureola going in almost full shade that I can divide from liberally and it fills back in nicely. These have been watered regularly this drought year, as has everything I don't want dormant or dead.