Here’s an odd one from the garden…the unique Solomon’s seal, Polygonatum ‘Koryu’. Each leaf is adorned with a central raised dragon ridge, giving the leaf an interesting multi-colored appearance. Like most of the Solomon’s seals, this one is very easy to grow in moist to dry woodland soils, although very deep shade slows down the
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Here’s another gem from Taiwan flowering in the garden today, Podophyllum pleianthum…one of the many great Chinese mayapples. Moist to average soil moisture, and compost-rich soils grow the largest plants. Unlike the US native mayapple, these don’t run or go summer dormant.
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Here’s a photo of our Rohdea chinensis var. chinensis from Taiwan, flowering in the garden today. The flowers open greenish white and quickly change to this lovely soft orange. The unique floral fragrance is sort of fruit/alcoholic…hardy to really describe. The evergreen rohdeas prefer light woodland shade and average to moist soils.
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I just snapped this photo of one of my all-time spring garden favorites…the hardy orchid, Calanthe sieboldii. These easy-to-grow woodland orchids prefer average to slightly moist soil. We’re just a the tip of peak orchid season in the woodland gardens here at Juniper Level.
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Plants in the nursery cold frames are finally emerging as spring begins. Here’s a new photo from one of our hosta greenhouses. If you’re used to receiving small, recently propagated hostas from other mail order companies, we think you’ll be pleasantly shocked at the size of our hostas.
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It was great to finally see Trillium viridescens in the wild, although due to the cold spring, only a couple of plants were beginning to flower. These also grew in floodplains, where they were unfortunately being devastated by the excessive deer populations…a problems that must be addressed before we loose more valuable plant populations. I
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Another plant that really threw us for a loop were the populations of dwarf Trillium sessile. These plants all topped out between 2″ and 3″ tall…totally unlike any of the other Trillium sessile that we’ve ever seen. Very cute!
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It’s always exciting when you find a variegated plant in the wild, so here is one of our discoveries…a variegated sport on Cynoglossum virginicum…our native woodland Hound’s tonuge.
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I’m going through my toothwort phase, so was thrilled find this serrate-edged, silver-leaf form of Dentaria angustata. Dentaria, or cardamine as they are now officially known are great native spring ephemerals that are sadly little-known by gardeners.
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It was great to finally see Phlox bifida in the wild, although we were shocked to see where it grew. We expected to find it on dry shale banks with Viola pedata, but instead found it growing in soggy wet seeps.
