Looking especially great in the garden today is Buddleia ‘Blue Heaven’. This amazing butterfly bush was hybridized to have a perfectly rounded, compact shape throughout the growing season without any clipping. Here’s our amazing plant in the garden this week. Also, check out our in-depth article about Butterfly Bush and our article on the top 25
Butterfly bush – Buddleia ‘Blue Heaven’ Read More »
Another of the milk and wine striped crinum lilies is Crinum x digweedii ‘Stars and Stripes’…here’s a recent photo from the garden. It just oozes with fragrance! This has been an amazing summer for crinum lilies at Juniper Level. These mostly African species and their hybrids are wonderfully fragrant, hard-to-kill bulbs for the sunny garden.
Crinum lilies in the garden Read More »
The amazing Manettia cordifolia has been in full flower for several weeks, and will continue for quite a while. As you can imagine, this is hummingbird central. Anita and I spent a good bit of time the other evening snapping photos of this amazing vine.
Manettia (firecracker vine) in full flower Read More »
We’ve enjoyed a late flowering hardy cactus in the gardens this week…Ferocactus wislizeni. Normally not winter hardy here, this high elevation seedling has been fine in the garden for the last four winters…two of which dropped to single digits F. If we get seed set, we’ll grow some to share.
Another hardy cactus in flower Read More »
The New Fall 2015 Plant Delights Nursery catalog is now on-line with lots of great new goodies, like the plants picture below. We hope you’ll find a few that you can’t garden without. Enjoy! . Agave ‘Ivory Curls’ Fatsia ‘Murakumo Nishiki’ Helleborus ‘Pipa’s Purple’ Lycoris x rosea ‘Neon Nights’ Monarda ‘Bubblegum Blast’ Podophyllum ‘Spotty Dotty’
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One of our favorite summer garden plants are the amorphophallus (love lilies), and in particular, Amorphophallus kiusianus. The foliage, which doesn’t emerge before mid-June, resembles a miniature palm tree. This species is very rot resistant, compared to some of the other hardy species. Amorphophallus kiusianus also sets seed
Amorphophallus kiusianus foliage and fruit Read More »
This is such an incredible time of year for crinum lily flowering…Here is Crinum ‘Rose Parade‘ looking fine this week, despite the hot temperatures. Crinum x baconii ‘Maureen Spinks’…one of our personal favorites; one of the many milk and wine crinum lilies which thrives in both our summers and our winters. Crinum ‘Stars and Stripes’ is
Crinum lily season Read More »
Jasper and Henry playing hide and seek in the garden this week. Jasper and Henry engaging in some brotherly tussling. After break, it’s back to work for Henry, whose finally mastered using a laptop cursor after eating his mouse.
Jasper and Henry – Time for play and work Read More »
Anita and I just celebrated our 2nd anniversary this week…two years that have flown by. My world has been opened to so many things I never knew existed before we were married, and the learning is only just beginning. I still can’t believe I’m blessed to have such an amazing person with which to share
