The Christmas season brought us two early gifts…new additions to the PDN/JLBG family….the twins, Jake and Elwood. They were abandoned as young kittens and discovered swimming toward swimmers in the nearby Cape Fear river, where they were rescued and nursed back to health. With their early life adventures outdoors, they seem content to spend the
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We use a tremendous amount of compost in the garden each year, much from our own nursery and garden wastes, but we also receive discarded residential leaves from the adjacent town of Garner. Anita just captured this artsy image of a recently dumped pile of shredded leaves. Who knew compost could also be art?
I just snapped this photo of the evergreen perennial, Rohdea chinensis ‘Green Panda’ in full fruit. For those who have grown Rohdea japonica, you’ll notice the fruit on Rohdea chinensis is orange with pointed tips as opposed to red and more oval in Rohdea japonica. In the ground, Rohdea chinensis has longer, more pointed leaves
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Happy Thanksgiving wishes from our the Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden family to yours! We hope you enjoy great Thanksgiving dining and then have time to work it off in the the garden…weather permitting!
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Several weeks ago, we shipped an order of Aconitum (monkshood) plants to the Hollywood producers of NCIS-LA for an episode of the show which just aired involving monkshood poisoning. You can find episode 11-24 titled Traitor on line and watch our plants have their 15 minutes of fame.
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Plant Delights still has an open position for a Full-Time Facilities Maintenance Specialist. We’re looking for a handyman with good skills in a variety of areas. You can find more by clicking the link above. We’re also looking for some part-time help in this division as well. If this sounds like you or someone you
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Congratulations to Mark Weathington who has been hired as the next Director of the JC Raulston Arboretum. Visitors have no doubt noticed the changes to the arboretum during Mark’s tenure as assistant director, so we look forward to even more exciting times as Mark assumes the helm!
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With the retirement of Dr. Larry Mellichamp from the UNC-Charlotte Botanical Garden, UNC-C is looking to fill his position with two people. The first position to be advertised is a Research Specialist, who will manage the greenhouse and gardens. If you’re interested, the position is only open until the end of November.
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One of our favorite woodland garden plants is the evergreen solomon’s seal, Disporopsis pernyi. Here’s a photo I just took to show how good it still looks after several nights around 20 degrees F. It’s also about as tolerant of deep shade as any plant we grow. We’ve had reports of it being winter hardy
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The key to determining which lycoris will grow well in your area is foliage emergence time. Lycoris, as a group, are summer flowering bulbs, whose foliage emerges after flowering and grows during the winter season. Lycoris can be divided into two groups…those whose foliage emerges in fall/early winter, and those whose foliage emerges in late
