We just snapped this photo of our little-known Southeast native, Balduinia atropurpurea, which is in full flower today…not bad for early October. It’s grown so rarely, that we don’t know how much farther north it might grow. Any comments?
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I’ve been using a Cannon EOS for probably two decades, so when my current one died recently (they all seem to develop shutter problems after a couple of years), Anita encouraged me to try her mirrorless Fuji camera. Surprisingly, it almost made sense to my technically impaired brain, so yesterday I took the plunge and
Here’s a recent photo of the amazing Ruellia ‘Black Beauty’ in the gardens here at Juniper Level…true black foliage…something rarely seen in hardy perennials.
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Cyclamen season is in full swing here at Juniper Level. We had great flowering this summer on Cyclamen graecum, even after a very cold winter…here’s a recent photo from the garden. Cyclamen are very easy to grow as long as they receive light shade and have dry soil during the summer months. We have
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It’s time for our final Open Nursery and Garden for 2015. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Sept 11-13 and Sept 18-20; 8-5 on Fri, Sat., and 1-5 on Sunday. We hope you’ll join us with plant lovers from around the country to enjoy the beauty of the fall garden and shop for perennials to your heart’s
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We’ve been enjoying the late-flowering hostas over the last few weeks, with many just beginning. One of our favorites is Hosta ‘Sugar and Spice’…a stunning sport of Hosta ‘Invincible’ with fragrant flowers and variegated foliage. We put this as one of the best performing hostas we’ve ever grown..great foliage, great flowers, and great vigor in
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We love plants that attract butterflies to the garden, and here at Juniper Level Botanic Garden, it’s been a banner year for butterflies. Allium ‘Millenium’ is always a favorite of yellow swallowtails…here are images from this week. See the top 25 flowers that attract butterflies here. Joe Pye weed…aka Eupatorium is always a butterfly favorite. Here
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We love species clematis for their interesting seed heads…in addition to the flowers. Here is one of our experiments using a dasylrion as the support structure for the clematis. We just took this photo showing the interesting three dimensional effect it created.
Here’s a photo we just took in the garden of the amazing Colocasia ‘White Lava’. We love this hybrid from the amazing breeding program of Hawaii’s John Cho. Hardiness outdoors is Zone 7b south. Learn how to grow elephant ears here.
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It’s hard to beat the cobalt blue flowers of blue plumbago/leadwort in the summer garden. Here is our patch of the durable groundcover, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides in flower today…either full sun or light shade is fine. Don’t confuse this with the tropical blue African plumbago, Plumbago auriculata…this one is winter hardy to at least Zone 5b.
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