Many gardeners don’t look forward to summer, but we’ve found a cure…plant lycoris! Known as surprise lilies and hurricane lilies, the lycoris bloom season starts in mid-July and continues into mid-September with a procession of different varieties. Winter hardiness of lycoris ranges from Zone 4 to Zone 7, depending on when the foliage emerges. We
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We’re currently accepting application for two key positions, Nursery/Greenhouse Grower and Nursery Manager. We’re looking for just the right person who shares our passion for plants, people, and high quality. You can find out more on our website, so if you’d like to join our team, let us hear from you.
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Kelly Grummons is a long-time cactiphyle and cactus breeder. Kelly was a part of Timberline Gardens in Denver until it closed recently to make way for development. For now, he’s running his mail order cactus nursery from his home. Many of the cool opuntias in our garden came from Kelly. Kelly’s home garden More cool
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Just back from the Perennial Plant Association Symposium, held this year in Denver. The annual meeting, designed for garden professionals, includes plenty of tours and talks. The meeting attracts garden designers, garden workers, garden writers & speakers, nursery growers, retailers, and perennial plant lovers from around the world. It’s a great chance to meet and chat
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PDN alumnus, Jared Chauncey brought this Carex glaucescens back from a botanizing trip to Georgia a few years ago. We’ve been very impressed as it’s grown into a lovely specimen. So, would you purchase one if we were to offer it? Winter hardiness is probably Zone 6-9, at least.
We’ve got a thing for hardy cactus in the garden, but haven’t propagated many to offer yet. One of our many favorites is Notocactus apricus. Above is our 17 year old clump in the garden, which is 4″ tall x 15″ wide. We’ve grown a few from seed, but are curious how many folks might
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This lovely male Imperial Moth showed up on the window by our main nursery entrance this week and has stayed put for several days…we’re enjoying his splendor.
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Our nearly 2″ rain, a few days ago, produced a stunning show of rain lilies in the garden. Here are some selections from the original Yucca Do collection in Labuffa, Mexico. Between July and October, these flower 2-3 days after each rain. Winter hardiness of each is Zone 7b, although, they may possibly survive in
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Hymen flowers (aka Hymenocallis) are still going, as the Northern Mexican species now perfume the garden. The genus begins flowering in spring, and if you grow a wide range of species, you can have flowers until late summer/early fall. Here’s a photo we recently took of Hymenocallis pimana in the garden. While many hymenocallis prefer
It’s especially sad for us to announce the all too early passing of former PDN’er Hunter Stubbs, 47, who passed away this weekend from brain cancer. Hunter was a star student of the late Dr. JC Raulston, and an amazing worker for us, before he moved to Asheville, and became a household name in the
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