I will admit I originally purchased this from We-Du Nursery co-founder, Dick Weaver for the name, after he shared the story of tromping through the woods near his home in Polly Spout, NC, and spotted what appeared to be a green cow pie. It turned out to be an exceptional form of the native woodland
Cow Pies….aka Meadow Muffin Read More »
We were marveling this week at the incredible number of pollinator insects feeding on Sedum ‘Dynomite‘ in the garden. Visitors included honeybees, native bumblebees, dirt daubers, and assorted other wasps…all feasting away as if the buffet was closing. Gardens can be environmentally healthy and attractive. Fom a different angle, the same plant of Sedum ‘Dynomite‘, combined
Magnets and Magenta…both attract Read More »
Can we have a collective, WOW! For decades, we’ve begged plant breeders to use the weeping butterfly bush, Buddleia lindleyana in their breeding. Although two breeders did so, and we have their F1 (first generation) hybrids in the garden, no one took it to further generations…until now. We are please to help introduce these amazing
New Cascades Butterfly Bushes…not your grandmothers buddleias Read More »
We require a lot from our garden cats including these exhausting marketing photo shoots. What a tough life being a garden supermodel. We’ll be sure to wake them in time to greet open nursery and garden visitors this weekend.
Supermodel at rest Read More »
It’s always cool to have really fun plants in the garden, and few can match this selection of our North American native, Manfreda undulata. Manfreda ‘Cherry Chocolate Chip’ is the work of our friend Hans Hansen, who has created some of the finest perennials on the market today. For us, Manfreda ‘Cherry Chocolate Chip’ stays evergreen to
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This spring, we introduced a new seed strain of century plant, named Agave ‘Durango Fandango’. These arose from a cross made by one of our volunteer agave curators, Mike Papay. Agave flexispina pollen was applied to a hardy selection of Agave schidigera. As with all agave crosses, it takes a while to full evaluate the
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We had an interesting end of the day Friday, when a microburst/funnel cloud, complete with an abundance of 2.25″ hail, passed over the nursery and gardens. Colocasias were immediately transformed into Monstera deliciosa…aka Swiss Cheese plants. Eighteen irrigation pipes in the nursery were shattered along with the roof of our potting barn. On the bright
Our friend Hans Hansen had told us about a redbud he was growing from the former Wavecrest Nursery, that was a cross of Cercis canadensis and Cercis chinensis…a cross considered difficult, if not almost impossible. I visited last week to get cuttings (yes, it roots), and found a stunningly beautiful small tree with glossy dark
Redbud love – Cercis ‘Wavecrest’ Read More »
In 1998, Massacheusetts allium breeder, Mark McDonough share a plant of his newly named Allium ‘Millenium’ with us to introduce in 2000 to celebrate the new century. After 17 years on the market, Allium ‘Millenium’ became an overnight success when it was just selected as the 2018 Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial
Allium ‘Milleniunm’ – Perennial Plant of the Year Read More »
We’ll never get tired of growing plants from seed and the anticipation of seeing what unique traits might arise. This week, we were thrilled to “discover” our first white oxblood lily, Rhodophiala bifida in our research trials. We deflowered it this week with its own pollen in the hopes of producing more white clones. Fingers
Rhodophiala bifida ‘White Surprise’…and more Read More »
