Hi Folks; Would you like to join our unique and talented Plant Delights Nursery team? We’re looking for a very special person for our newly created position of Administrative Manager, whose charge will be to oversee the entire administrative side of our business. This position will work closely with us (Tony and Anita) as we share
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Today…Sunday is day 3 of our 6-day Summer Open Nursery and Garden. We hope you’ll drop to stroll the gardens and perhaps find a few plants you can’t live without. We’re open today from 1-5 and next Friday, Saturday 8-5, and winding up next Sunday from 1-5pm. We’d love to say hello and answer your
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Most birds in the garden have the good sense to nest in relatively safe areas like trees, but not killdeers. I almost ran over this nesting killdeer with the golf cart yesterday. Fortunately, they have rather loud voices. We’re not sure if this is mama or daddy, but the babies can’t be far off.
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Flowering now is our dwarf strain of Formosa lily from a seed collection at over 9000′ elevation in Taiwan. Lilium formosanum ‘Hehuan‘ stays at 2’ tall, and has lovely burgundy keeled flowers…delightful! It also comes true from seed.
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One of the most difficult parts of our job is to try and predict which plants will sell well. We’d like to think that our favorites would also be your favorites, and in some cases that’s true. In others, like Boehmeria ‘Glow Light’, it wasn’t true. We just took this photo of one of our
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We were thrilled to hear from the staff at Atlanta’s Garden Hood garden center that indeed they are alive and well. As it turns out, Scott only closed one part of his nursery/garden center business and sold the other to his nursery manager. Garden Hood is a delightful garden center, run by plant lovers in
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One of my favorite spring perennials is Campanula ‘Sarastro’…here is a recent image from the garden. Campanulas are a struggle for us…they either die in our summer heat or take over the garden. One notable exception is the hybrid Campanula ‘Sarastro’, which we’ve grown since 2003, and it just gets better each year. This gem
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Here’s an image we just snapped of one of the craziest canna lilies we grow…Canna ‘Cleopatra’. The purple and green random leaf patterns (chimeras) are stably unstable. When the color splits the leaf, the same thing happens on the flower stalk. Flowers on the purple side of the stalk are red, and those arising from
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Thanks for the great feedback on the hosta image. Since most folks don’t have experience in plant breeding, we thought it might be interesting to share the crosses and parents involved to get to this point. Our Hosta is PDN#10-004 and is a cross of PDN07-0793 x ((PDN05-156 x PDN04-180) (kikutii x ‘Gemstone’ (venusta ‘Minima’
Here’s one of our new hosta hybrids flowering today. We curious what you think and would you buy it if we decide to introduce it?
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