For those who love century plants, here are few that you’ll find in the 2015 catalog that is now only 8 days from going live. The first is our hybrid of Agave striata x Agave bracteosa that we named Agave ‘Straight and Narrow’. It’s a small agave, with virtually no offsets. We’ve had this […]
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As we continue featuring some of our new plant introductions that will be in our 2015 catalog, we’d like to introduce you to Polygonatum odoratum ‘Goldilocks’…our new Solomon’s Seal, which started life here as a seedling well over a decade earlier. Polygonatum ‘Goldilocks’ is the only variegated Solomon’s seal that also produces fruit, which in
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Also in the same family as the mayapple, we’d like to introduce you to Epimedium wushanense ‘Starlite’. All Epimedium wushanense are great, but this clone stood out in our trials, so after many years of division, we finally have enough to share. The large clump stretches out to over 3′ wide and 18″ tall…truly amazing.
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In case you’ve been wondering what Gardening Santa has in store in the new Plant Delights catalog, we’ll give you a sneak peak before the new catalog goes live December 31. We’ll start off with an amazing new mayapple, Podophyllum ‘Galaxy’. This has thrived for us, compared to some selections in the past that did
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I just snapped this photo of the beautiful Helleborus lividus. This is the most heat tolerant and least winter tolerant of the lenten rose species. We’ve grown Helleborus lividus outdoors for over 20 years, despite experts claiming it isn’t winter hardy here. Hint…it needs summer heat to be winter hardy. The new foliage actually emerges
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One of the real joys of the winter gardening season is the Mediterranean native Clematis cirrhosa. Here is how it looks today, draped across the railing on our house deck. Clematis cirrhosa blooms from now until early spring, so you will often find the flowers completely encased in snow or ice…pretty amazing! Did you know
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To celebrate a bright sunshiny day in NC, here’s a new photo of our named introduction, a gold-foliage form of the southeast US native anise, Illicium parviflorum ‘Florida Sunshine’. This is the original plant, which is now nearly 8′ tall x 8′ wide.
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The Christmas season brought us two early gifts…new additions to the PDN/JLBG family….the twins, Jake and Elwood. They were abandoned as young kittens and discovered swimming toward swimmers in the nearby Cape Fear river, where they were rescued and nursed back to health. With their early life adventures outdoors, they seem content to spend the
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We use a tremendous amount of compost in the garden each year, much from our own nursery and garden wastes, but we also receive discarded residential leaves from the adjacent town of Garner. Anita just captured this artsy image of a recently dumped pile of shredded leaves. Who knew compost could also be art?
I just snapped this photo of the evergreen perennial, Rohdea chinensis ‘Green Panda’ in full fruit. For those who have grown Rohdea japonica, you’ll notice the fruit on Rohdea chinensis is orange with pointed tips as opposed to red and more oval in Rohdea japonica. In the ground, Rohdea chinensis has longer, more pointed leaves
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