It’s finally here…the time we share the gardens and open the nursery to the public. Starting tomorrow (Friday) morning, we welcome visitors to stroll the gardens and shop till you drop for cool perennials. Click here for times and directions. The gardens here and Juniper Level look absolutely fabulous. Below are a few images of
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We’ve been growing Carex ‘Silk Tassel’ for nearly three decades and it is one of our woodland ornamental grasses. The very narrow variegated leaves are an absolutely delightful texture, although it’s hard to photograph well. Here’s our latest attempt to capture it as the new growth emerges in the garden this week.
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Here are a couple of hosta photos from the garden this weekend. Above is one of my favorite early spring emergers…Hosta ‘Designer Genes’. It truly glows in the gardens, contrasting nicely with the burgundy bases. This is our 2016 introduction, the dwarf Hosta ‘You’re So Vein’ with prominent leaf veins, especially bright in
Like sci-fi zombies re-awakening, ferns in the garden are spring back to life. Nothing says spring quite like the presence of new fern fronds emerging…known as croziers. Below are several different fern images we’ve taken as they emerged this spring. The first is the bamboo fern, coniogramme. Lepisorus or ribbon ferns, with their long narrow
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Epimedium ‘Pink Champagne’ is dazzling today in the garden, both for the great foliage and floral show. Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Rainbow’…WOW. Variegated foliage and very cool flowers. The key to growing this well is good drainage and immediately after flower, cut it back to near the ground. Clematis ochroleuca is an
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We’ve recently added over 60 new plants for sale to the website. These represent plants that we simply can’t produce in large enough numbers for the print catalog including quite a few rarieties. These include four of our native woodland perennial anemonellas. Above is Anemonella ‘Cameo’ Below is
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Here’s a photo from our garden yesterday of one of the amazing wild gingers, Asarum maximum…a superb evergreen woodland perennial.
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One of the great winter-flowering evergreen perennials is in full flower now. Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis, aka sweet box is a fascinating boxwood relative that forms a dense groundcover in shade. What make sweet box special are the intensely fragrant flowers toward the end of winter. All sarcococca are similar in form and flowering, varying
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After finishing a recent lunch, I headed outside on the porch to fill our bird feeders. Normally, all the birds instinctively retreat to a safe distance, awaiting their new snack, but something was different this day. A solitary house finch remained, seemingly oblivious as I re-filled the feeder. Why, I wondered, did it not
Do you know beesia? Outside of the plant collector world, few people have heard of this obscure member of the Ranunculus family…first cousin to hellebores, thalictrum, and clematis. There are only two species, both native to moist woodland soils at high elevations in the Himalayas. Surprisingly, Beesia calthifolia thrives in our heat and humidity
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