The giant Chinese mayapples have emerged in the last couple of days. Here is Podophyllum pleianthum showing off its fascinating leaf edges..a soft eyelash-like fringe around the edge of each leaf. You’d never guess that mayapples are actually in the barberry family! Podophyllum pleianthum emerges from the ground in bud, so it won’t be long […]
What lovely teeth you have, Podophyllum pleianthum Read More »
Another of my favorite plants of winter are the toothworts. Here is Dentaria diphylla aka: Cardamine diphylla in the garden yesterday. The foliage emerges in winter, making a lovely groundcover. We’ll see the short stalks of small, but cute flowers in a few more weeks, before most species go summer dormant. Dentaria diphylla has a
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With a much sweeter fragrance that the skunk cabbage, here’s a photo of Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Snow Cream’ from the garden today with its daphne-like flowers. I can’t imagine gardening without this as part of the winter garden. http://www.plantdelights.com/Edgeworthia-for-sale/buy-Paper-Plant/Flowers-with-Nectar/
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A sure garden sign that winter is nearing the end is the flowerring of our first aroid of the year…the lovely and beautiful ….wait, probably not the best choice of words…Symplocarpus foetidus. The flowers of skunk cabbage use thermogenesis to produce enough heat to melt through several feet of snow to allow its fragrance to
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Helleborus x hybridus yellow with maroon eyezone It’s been very difficult to find good rich yellow-flowered hellebores, but these were created by our friend, plant breeder Hans Hansen.
Helleborus x hybridus violet red with white edge We’ve still go a huge selection of truly amazing hellebores for sale. Here’s a photo of one that we just took.
Helleborus vesicarius While most hellebores are easy to grow, the same cannot be said for the summer-dormant, Turkish Helleborus vesicarius, which requires summer drought like many of the Mediterranean bulbs. Our plants here at Juniper Level Botanic Garden finally flowered for the first time ever this week…hooray!
Helleborus x hybridus pink spotted Another of our lenten rose strains of plants with pink with spotted flowers…this just taken from our plants in the garden and nursery
Helleborus x hybridus Black Purple Here’s another hellebore image we just took from our great assortment of black purple flowered plants.
Dear PDN’ers It’s hard to imagine winter is finally nearing an end when outside today we see the ground covered in snow with freezing rain forecasted to develop tonight and tomorrow. But to help us remember spring is just around the corner, at least in NC, the greenhouses are bursting with colorful hellebores and other
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