Striking a pose in the moist garden is Sarracenia flava ‘Black Ascot’. This incredible, native yellow pitcher plant has a variety of amazing forms. The key for success is full sun for 6-8 hours, and moist toes (roots). We offered this selection for the first time in 2020. We have it in production again and […]
While most folks from Zone 7 and north are quite familiar the English, Japanese, and European boxwoods of the genus, Buxus, gardeners in hotter climates had to turn to a substitue plant with similar traits for their climate. That plant is Myrsine africana, a woody member of the Primula family, which gained the common name,
An interesting plant that’s looking nice in the garden now is Hyoscyamus niger. This European native, member of the nightshade family Solanaceae, is a first cousin to tomatoes and potatoes. Although it’s short-lived in the garden, it is rather ornamental, but it’s popularity is actually due to its other properties. In traditional medicine, it’s known as
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Through the years, we made a couple of selections of the giant Chinese Solomon’s Seal, Polygonatum martinii, including the one below, Polygonatum ‘Bellissimo’. These amazing plants often top 6′ tall, so are truly giants in the woodland garden. We’ll start chopping on this soon, so we can one day have enough to share.
One of the rarest of the Southeast US native Barbara buttons is Marshallia ramosa, a plant previous more abundant, but now classified at one of the rarest and imperiled levels, G2. This endemic to a few populations in Georgia and Florida has dwindled, primarily to a lack of fire, and a subsequent takeover by more
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Many folks don’t realize how the entrance to their garden sets their mood, as you drive in and out. Even apartment complexes now spend money on a somewhat higher quality of landscaping, understanding that it helps people feel better about where they live. Here is a recent shot of our home drive as we enter
Ten months ago, we wrote about our purchase of a special, one of a kind, variegated form of Agave utahensis, that we named Agave ‘Liberty’. Because of its size, we knew it would be flowering soon, and as such, permanently lost. Before it initiated flower buds, we beheaded it, which in theory, should cause it
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One of the oddest, and consequenty, coolest ferns we grow in the garden is Lepisorus palmatopedatus, which translates in to palm-foot, scaly-sori fern. We’ve grown this Chinese (Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou) oddity for over three years, and it justs gets better each year, spreading slowly, via an underground rhizome. For us, it’s been mostly evergreen
It’s been four years that we’ve been trialing the dwarf princess lily, Alstroemeria ‘Zoe’. We were hesitant about it’s winter hardiness, especially after everyone got burned by the tender Alstroemeria ‘Rock and Roll’. After an extensive trial period, it has proven to be an outstanding, albeit slow-growing, gem for the garden. Below is a photo
Here is one of several clumps of the hardy Sinningia ‘Bananas Foster’ we planted along our patio retaining wall, where we can sit at night and watch the hummingbirds dine. This amazing plant flowers from May through the summer, so there’s no need to refill the red plastic feeders with high fructose water. These are
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