We will be open to the public during our Fall Open Garden and Nursery Days – September 18-20 & 25-27.
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Years since established
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Thousand different taxa
It’s Hard to Top the Pink Hill
Next year, Plant Delights will be introducing a fabulous new, dark pink-flowered selection of the native, Macbridea caroliniana, discovered by our former Plant Records/Taxonomist, Zac Hill. Macbridea ‘Pink Hill’ is…
In Di Still of the Da Night
A fascinating botanical hook-up took place in Spartanburg, SC. when a lonely Distyllum myricoides took a liking to a nearby Parrotia persica. The babies were discovered near the Distyllum, by…
When Life Gives you a Limon
Our 2014 tongue fern introduction, Pyrrosia lingua ‘Limon’, was discovered here as a solid gold sport on Pyrrosia lingua ‘Ogon Nishiki’. We took this image last week, of a superbly…
Bamboo Muhly
Looking great in the garden in summer is our new selection of bamboo muhly grass, Muhlenbergia dumosa ‘Patagonia’. Prior to this introduction, this splendid ornamental grass could only be overwintered…
Rescuing a Bunch of Ferners
For years, Raleigh botanist, and retired NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Education Director, Jesse Perry, has been sharing several of the amazing botanical curiosities, that he’s run across in his…
A Really Muddy Horse Field
We’ve grown the Asian Sauromatum horsfieldii, and other Sauromatum species, for almost two decades, and the more different accessions we grow, the more we’re convinced that there are more than…