Merry Christmas from Elwood, Jake, and the entire Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden family! Like most young children, these poor guys have searched high and low for their Christmas presents.
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2015 will be the first year to share our first jack-in-the-pulpit hybrid, Arisaema ‘Crossing Over’. This unique jack is a cross we made back in the mid-1990s of Arisaema fargesii and Arisaema heterophyllum. The offspring inherited the best traits of both parents. This should be a solid Zone 5 plant at least. Another “off the
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Last night, Jake and I were male bonding on the couch, and suddenly he lunged toward the television for a close-up view of the Denver/Cincinnati football game. He seems to recognize the Bengals as part of his family tree.
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For those who love century plants, here are few that you’ll find in the 2015 catalog that is now only 8 days from going live. The first is our hybrid of Agave striata x Agave bracteosa that we named Agave ‘Straight and Narrow’. It’s a small agave, with virtually no offsets. We’ve had this
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As we continue featuring some of our new plant introductions that will be in our 2015 catalog, we’d like to introduce you to Polygonatum odoratum ‘Goldilocks’…our new Solomon’s Seal, which started life here as a seedling well over a decade earlier. Polygonatum ‘Goldilocks’ is the only variegated Solomon’s seal that also produces fruit, which in
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Also in the same family as the mayapple, we’d like to introduce you to Epimedium wushanense ‘Starlite’. All Epimedium wushanense are great, but this clone stood out in our trials, so after many years of division, we finally have enough to share. The large clump stretches out to over 3′ wide and 18″ tall…truly amazing.
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In case you’ve been wondering what Gardening Santa has in store in the new Plant Delights catalog, we’ll give you a sneak peak before the new catalog goes live December 31. We’ll start off with an amazing new mayapple, Podophyllum ‘Galaxy’. This has thrived for us, compared to some selections in the past that did
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I just snapped this photo of the beautiful Helleborus lividus. This is the most heat tolerant and least winter tolerant of the lenten rose species. We’ve grown Helleborus lividus outdoors for over 20 years, despite experts claiming it isn’t winter hardy here. Hint…it needs summer heat to be winter hardy. The new foliage actually emerges
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One of the real joys of the winter gardening season is the Mediterranean native Clematis cirrhosa. Here is how it looks today, draped across the railing on our house deck. Clematis cirrhosa blooms from now until early spring, so you will often find the flowers completely encased in snow or ice…pretty amazing! Did you know
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To celebrate a bright sunshiny day in NC, here’s a new photo of our named introduction, a gold-foliage form of the southeast US native anise, Illicium parviflorum ‘Florida Sunshine’. This is the original plant, which is now nearly 8′ tall x 8′ wide.
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