Fall is a great season for many of the pitcher plants, which produce beautiful new pitchers now. Here’s a photo from yesterday, showing the lovely Sarracenia ‘Bug Bat’. Pitcher plants are easy to grow in full sun, organic soil with low nutrient content, and in a garden site that stays moist, but not wet on
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Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’ is simply stunning in the garden now. This giant can reach 6′ tall x 10′ wide in one season…a great way to impress the neighbors. This wonderful salvia thrives despite moist soil and single digit F winter temperatures. Salvia leucantha is one of the parents of Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’. This is the
Garden Photography Workshop This Weekend Be sure to get your front row seat to photograph along side professional garden photographer Josh Taylor here in our gardens. Check out the details and register at Garden Photography Workshop and learn more about Josh on his website: Joshua Taylor Photography. Some of Josh Taylor’s Recent Work
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I just snapped this photo of my favorite flower in the garden…my lovely bride, Anita Jane. Anita will be conducting her first class (a Mindfullness class &walk) here at Juniper Level Botanic Garden on Saturday October 24. Only a few spaces remain for this unique and insightful opportunity. I’m sure you’ll find her as amazing
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Boehmeria ‘Glow Light’ in our woodland garden this week..one of the few rays of brightness we’ve seen in the garden after 11 straight days and over 6″ of rain. Here’s a closeup of Boehmeria ‘Kogane Mushi’ in flower this week. Although we grow boehmeria for the foliage, the flower are also quite interesting. Most of
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We just snapped this photo of our little-known Southeast native, Balduinia atropurpurea, which is in full flower today…not bad for early October. It’s grown so rarely, that we don’t know how much farther north it might grow. Any comments?
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I’ve been using a Cannon EOS for probably two decades, so when my current one died recently (they all seem to develop shutter problems after a couple of years), Anita encouraged me to try her mirrorless Fuji camera. Surprisingly, it almost made sense to my technically impaired brain, so yesterday I took the plunge and
Here’s a recent photo of the amazing Ruellia ‘Black Beauty’ in the gardens here at Juniper Level…true black foliage…something rarely seen in hardy perennials.
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Greetings PDNers! It’s hard to believe, but September is here and it’s time for our final Open Nursery and Garden for 2015. We hope you’ll join us to see all the gems that look great this time of year and stock up for the fall planting season with all the cool new plants from the
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Cyclamen season is in full swing here at Juniper Level. We had great flowering this summer on Cyclamen graecum, even after a very cold winter…here’s a recent photo from the garden. Cyclamen are very easy to grow as long as they receive light shade and have dry soil during the summer months. We have
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