With our moist summer weather this year, the bananas have grown amazingly well. Here’s our clump of Musa ‘Mekong Giant’ in the garden. While it hasn’t grown taller than Musa basjoo, it spreads like no other bananas we’ve tried, making a huge tropical-looking mass. There are few better ways to add a tropical touch to
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Here’s the lovely Hibiscus aculeatus in flower now in the garden. Although the flowers don’t reach the enormous proportions of Hibiscus moscheutos, the soft yellow flowers of the southeast US native perennial Hibiscus aculeatus are a welcome color in the fall garden and the sandpapery leaves keep foliage-eating insects at bay.
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The Chinese Paeonia obovata is one of the few peony species that’s grown as much for its seed as for its flowers…the seed last much longer. Here’s a photo I just snapped in the garden of its amazing seed pods. Be sure to see this when you visit this weekend for our final Open Nursery
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Their yellow flowers are long gone, but the lovely dark black seed of Belamcanda chinensis ‘Gone with the Wind’ are strutting their stuff in the garden today…hence the common name, Blackberry lily.
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We left instructions for Jasper to start a low-cal diet, but he misread the paper and thought it said a low-cat diet, so he tried to use Henry for his afternoon snack yesterday. Henry was not amused.
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Many folks don’t realize that we grow our own plants here at Plant Delights. This allows better control of availability, quality, and trueness to name. Here are current photos of three of our stock houses where the plants are grown…one with cannas and gingers, another with agaves and yuccas, and one with elephant ears. Your
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The late summer flowering crinums are just superb right now…just captured this image of Crinum ‘Stars and Stripes‘ in bloom today. Crinums are tough as nails, but really flower so much better with slightly moist soils, and lots of compost.
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Just snapped this image of the amazing Alstroemeria ‘Casablanca‘ in the garden. Although this was developed as a cut flower, it turned out to be an amazingly hardy perennial. My friend, Hans Hansen has found this to be hardy for several years in Southern Michigan.
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If you’re coming to our Open Nursery and Garden today, be sure to check out the flowering xHowardara ‘Little Princess’. What looks like a red rain lily is actually a very rare tri-generic hybrid…a cross of Hippeastrum (amaryllis) x Sprekelia (Aztec Lily) x Zephyranthes (rain lily). The cross was created a few years ago by
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The Agaves are looking great in the garden today as we start our Fall Open Nursery and Garden. Here are two of my favorites as they look today…the spineless Agave bracteosa (top) that looks like a stiff green squid, and the magnificent Agave ovatifolia. (botttom) Both of these were brought into the US from Mexico
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