We highly value our cast iron plants (aspidistra) in the winter garden. When we started collecting them in 1980, there were only 20 known species. Today, there are over 200 species known to science. Here are a few in the garden this winter. These are just a few of the 139 different cast iron plant
Here’s an image from last fall that we never got posted of Cardiocrinum cordatum flowering in the garden. Our climate isn’t ideal for most cardiocrinums, but this one has been outstanding. Where we have it, this gets sun from noon until sunset.
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This was a fun color echo we caught right before our first frost as the last of the monarchs stocked up on food before their International flight left for their winter vacation in Mexico. Cestrum (Solanaceae) seems to be a monarch favorite in our garden. Hopefully, we have someone who can work on producing a
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Sarracenia rosea looked particularly adorable this week under a light snowfall. Everything melted within a day, but it looks like we might see more this weekend.
Having lived in Juniper Level, NC for 35 years, we’ve driven past the old Juniper Level School (just a few hundred feet from JLBG) countless times, anxiously waiting for promised renovations, before the building fell too far into disrepair. Well, after numerous starts, renovations are going full speed and we’d like to share the amazing
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Here’s a scene from the winter garden with lots of evergreen color. The yellow is our Illicium parviflorum ‘Florida Sunshine’.
If you slow down in the garden, you’ll notice an amazing array of natural patterns. One of our favorites are the spore patterns on the fern genus, Coniogramme. While all spore patterns are fascinating, the bamboo ferns are truly unique, with their anastomosing vein patterns. Since coniogramme is tardily deciduous, the spore patterns remain looking
This is the week that we had expected to welcome hundreds of participants from all over the world to the 2020 Southeastern Plant Symposium in Raleigh, NC, but world events had other plans. So, we shifted gears and put together a replacement on-line symposium that will take place this Friday June 12 from 10am-3pm. This
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