Tony Avent

Since we have a passion for native plants, we constantly seek out both new species and new selections that simply aren’t widely known.  Eryngium aquaticum var. ravenelii is one of those plants that leave us asking why it isn’t grown more.  Unlike most of the perennial native eryngiums that have green flowers, this one has

Be honest now…how many of you have grown psoralea in your garden?  Psoralea is an odd little baptisia cousin that’s ignored by all the gardening books, as well as most recommended native plant lists. Here is our clump of Psoralea psoralioides in the garden this past June…pretty amazing for a perennial native from Illinois south

We love dianthus (hardy carnations), both for their evergreen foliage, drought tolerance, and deliciously fragrant flowers. Getting dianthus to flower is easy, it just that soon after flowering, most succumb to our hot, humid summers. Consequently, we celebrate when a new dianthus not only survives, but thrives. The latest trial subjects to sail through our

We are thrilled to finally introduce our latest fairy wing from our breeding work here at PDN/JLBG.  Epimedium ‘Peachie‘ is a 2010 Plant Delights seedling that has been absolutely stellar in our trials, both for the unique peach flower color and for the sheer density of flowers. We hope you will enjoy this in your

Plantsman Hans Hansen spends much of his time on a ladder, since that’s required when you breed plants with ridiculously tall flower spikes like Agaves and Manfredas. We continue to be amazed at the dazzling array of bi-generic Mangaves that he and his staff have created. You can follow Hans’ mangave work on the “Mad

We received our first plant of the solitary-growing Agave ovatifolia ‘Killer’, after it was first created by our friend Hans Hansen in 2009. As you can imagine, propagating a non-offsetting century plant like the whale tongue agave isn’t an easy task. By sacrificing the beauty of the original plant and drilling out the central core,

If you’ve followed us for a while, you know our passion for the North American native baptisia. Our breeding program is over two decades old now, and we are thrilled to introduce our latest selections. Baptisia ‘Blue Candleabra’ is a 2008 seedling that produces an insane number of spikes with a great flower density. Baptisia

We never seem to have enough of our most popular variegated cast iron plants, so we’ve held back stock to try and rebuild our numbers.  We are finally able to again list three customer favorites…all in the same year. The foliage color on each is the most brilliant when the new leaves emerge in summer,