We begin our second Winter Open Nursery and Garden weekend with bright, sunny skies…a welcome contrast to much of weekend one. The greenhouses are brimming with wonderful perennials, awaiting to be adopted. Here’s one of the sales greenhouses today with some of our bulb offerings. Our bulbs are grown in containers in greenhouse cold […]
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After two weeks of very cold weather, we have resumed shipping plants this week…hooray! Here are Paula’s crew today, boxing up plants for delivery to their new owners. We apologize for the delay, but thank you so much for both your orders and your patience!
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Despite the weather forecasts, today turned out to be a beautiful sunny winter day with temperatures in the mid 40s. Snow melt continues at a fast pace in most parts of the garden. The hellebores in the garden are still blooming well despite the recent weather. As one pile of snow melted away today, we
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Buy New Plants! Shop now – we’ve just added over 35 new plants to the online catalog, including a number of ferns, several hard-to-find cyclamen, several crinum lilies, hostas, peonies, and even a couple more agaves and hellebores …most available in very limited quantities, so order now. Shop the entire collection of new 2015 plants
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It’s almost time for our first open nursery and garden days for 2015, starting tomorrow, Friday. To create some interesting photographic moments, we’ve spread this white powder all over the garden. Despite what you may have seen on television, PDN has only about 1/2″ on the ground, so the staff is here and working to
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Here is a photo of the amazing Helleborus ‘Penny’s Pink’ I snapped yesterday…what a wonderful plant for both foliage and flowers. We’re also pleased to share the latest video on our hellebores that Katie and I just completed…enjoy!
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On a note unrelated to plants, I have decided to sell my piano, which was purchased new around 1980. Believe it or not, I took lessons for eight years of lessons as a youngster. This piano is one I purchased as a recent newlywed around 1980. I have come to the realization that my chances
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Only four days remain before the start of our 2015 Winter Open Nursery and Garden. The greenhouses are brimming with flowering hellebores….2000 in full flower, by our count this morning. This is a great chance to visit and hand-pick your favorite lenten roses, although all PDN plants for sale are also available. Here are just
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We hope you’re enjoying winter, where ever you might be reading this. If you live near Boston…skip this section. Our winter in NC started out cold, then moderated during January, followed by an unusually late February blast of arctic air. While we’ve not been as cold as last winter, our cold has come much later.
My first stop in Seattle was the Downtown Convention Center, which was hosting the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Despite my uneasiness of mass transit, and lack of sense of direction in big cities, I threw caution to the wind and took the Link Light Rail from the airport to downtown ($2.75 fare compared to
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