Back patio garden
Here’s a photo of our back patio garden this week from Anita’s office window. You can see the Lychnis ‘Orange Sherbet’ in the back right corner by the deck.
Lychnis ‘Orange Sherbet’
I can think of few plants we grow that give us a much pleasure as Lychnis coronata ‘Orange Sherbet’ I just snapped this photo in our woodland garden, where it grows under a giant windmill palm near our back deck and flowers most of the summer…simply fantastic!
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Agave ocahui in flower
The fourth of our eight century plants with flower spikes is now open. This is a 10-year old specimen of Agave ocahui…one of the agaves with unbranched flower spikes. We’re enjoying the amazing flowers, while also trying to make crosses with other species to create interesting new hybrids…wish us luck! Since Agave ocahui doesn’t offset,
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Bidwill’s Coral Bean
If big and bodacious is your thing, then you need a Bidwill’s coral bean. I just snapped this photo of our clump of Erythina x bidwillii in the garden. This amazing hybrid of our North Carolina native coral bean with the South American coral bean is one amazing plant. It dies back to the ground
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Laurentia fluvitalis groundcover
One of the really tiny and well-behaved groundcovers for summer interest is Laurentia fluvitalis. Here it is flowering in the garden today at under 1″ tall with lovely sky blue flowers…perfect for a miniature garden. Good sun, and slightly moist soils are best.
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Crinum ‘Schreck’
One of the real stars of the early summer garden are the crinum liliies. These amazing and durable amaryllid relatives simply provide color like nothing else in the garden. Here’s our clump of Crinum ‘Schreck’ in the garden…pretty exceptional! Although crinums are insanely drought tolerant, they flower much better with a bit of moisture.
Salvia ‘Hot Lips’
We’ve reached the end of a rather warm week here in NC, but recent rains have given us a nice respite, so I’ll be heading out into the garden today for some planting time. There’s lots going on now including a splendid display from the woody salvias. Here a new photo of Salvia ‘Hot Lips’…a
Inventory finished – Website functional again!
Hi Folks Thanks so much for your patience! We’ve finished our nursery wide inventory and once again have correct numbers in our e-commerce system, so we can be of better service. The website is fully functional again…again, thanks so much for understanding!
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Closed for Inventory, Thursday class openings
Good morning folks. As the note on our website indicates, we are taking our semi-annual inventory today and because our inventory is live and we want our web offerings to be accurate, we have closed the website for sales until we finish. At the latest, that will be late afternoon tomorrow, Wednesday. We still have
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Echinacea ‘Salsa Red’
One final favorite…the very floriferous, but more compact Echinacea ‘Salsa Red‘ in the gardens today!
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