For our agave collectors, here’s a new drool-worthy introduction…a variegated edge sport of Agave geminiflora, called ‘Leaping Lizards’. This is an amazing opportunity to obtain a truly rare specimen…as long as they last. While Agave geminiflora isn’t terribly winter hardy, these do make amazing container specimens. Agave ‘Leaping Lizards’ is a solitary specimen (no offsets),
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New Year greetings from the staff at Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden. We thank you all from the top of our hearts for another amazing year. As we turn the page on the calendar, 2018 begins our 30th anniversary year…and they said it wouldn’t last. At this time of reflection, we wanted
A couple of years ago, we introduced this amazing acanthus with red rhubarb-like stems under the name Acanthus ‘Wofford Rhubarb’. Here is our garden clump this week, looking better each year…truly stunning.
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On of the exciting new plants in the 2018 catalog is the first commercial variegated hardy perennial hibiscus. Hibiscus ‘Summer Carnival’ was developed by our friend Hans Hansen. I can still recall the moment I first laid eyes on this beauty…truly love at first sight. The variegation runs up the stem, into the leaves, and
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Where has the year gone? We don’t know about you, but our last three months has been spent writing and assembling the 2018 Plant Delights Nursery catalog. After weeks of proofing, it’s finally been printed and will go in the mail first of the year. The on-line version should go live this weekend. As always,
I’m just back from speaking to the Western NC Master Gardener Symposium…always a great time chatting with MG groups. While in Asheville, I dropped by to finally visit our friends Matt and Tim Nichols…the owners of Mr. Maple mail order nursery in East Flat Rock, NC. It just happened that the PBS show, Growing a
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Salvia leucantha has had quite a run in the garden this fall…we do love this plant. Dry soils in winter are the key to overwintering it in the ground in marginal climates like here in Zone 7b.
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For over a month, Cuphea micropetala has been simply glorious with its Halloween colored flowers. Hardy for us, it can be used as a container specimen as long as you move it indoors before a freeze. For us, it dies to the ground after a hard freeze, but returns stronger each year here in Zone
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