It’s time for our final Open Nursery and Garden for 2015. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Sept 11-13 and Sept 18-20; 8-5 on Fri, Sat., and 1-5 on Sunday. We hope you’ll join us with plant lovers from around the country to enjoy the beauty of the fall garden and shop for perennials to your heart’s
Fall Open Nursery and Garden time is here! Read More »
We’ve been enjoying the late-flowering hostas over the last few weeks, with many just beginning. One of our favorites is Hosta ‘Sugar and Spice’…a stunning sport of Hosta ‘Invincible’ with fragrant flowers and variegated foliage. We put this as one of the best performing hostas we’ve ever grown..great foliage, great flowers, and great vigor in
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We love plants that attract butterflies to the garden, and here at Juniper Level Botanic Garden, it’s been a banner year for butterflies. Allium ‘Millenium’ is always a favorite of yellow swallowtails…here are images from this week. See the top 25 flowers that attract butterflies here. Joe Pye weed…aka Eupatorium is always a butterfly favorite. Here
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We love species clematis for their interesting seed heads…in addition to the flowers. Here is one of our experiments using a dasylrion as the support structure for the clematis. We just took this photo showing the interesting three dimensional effect it created.
Here’s a photo we just took in the garden of the amazing Colocasia ‘White Lava’. We love this hybrid from the amazing breeding program of Hawaii’s John Cho. Hardiness outdoors is Zone 7b south. Learn how to grow elephant ears here.
Colocasia ‘White Lava’ – stunning accent in the garden Read More »
It’s hard to beat the cobalt blue flowers of blue plumbago/leadwort in the summer garden. Here is our patch of the durable groundcover, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides in flower today…either full sun or light shade is fine. Don’t confuse this with the tropical blue African plumbago, Plumbago auriculata…this one is winter hardy to at least Zone 5b.
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Looking especially great in the garden today is Buddleia ‘Blue Heaven’. This amazing butterfly bush was hybridized to have a perfectly rounded, compact shape throughout the growing season without any clipping. Here’s our amazing plant in the garden this week. Also, check out our in-depth article about Butterfly Bush and our article on the top 25
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Another of the milk and wine striped crinum lilies is Crinum x digweedii ‘Stars and Stripes’…here’s a recent photo from the garden. It just oozes with fragrance! This has been an amazing summer for crinum lilies at Juniper Level. These mostly African species and their hybrids are wonderfully fragrant, hard-to-kill bulbs for the sunny garden.
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The amazing Manettia cordifolia has been in full flower for several weeks, and will continue for quite a while. As you can imagine, this is hummingbird central. Anita and I spent a good bit of time the other evening snapping photos of this amazing vine.
Manettia (firecracker vine) in full flower Read More »
We’ve enjoyed a late flowering hardy cactus in the gardens this week…Ferocactus wislizeni. Normally not winter hardy here, this high elevation seedling has been fine in the garden for the last four winters…two of which dropped to single digits F. If we get seed set, we’ll grow some to share.
Another hardy cactus in flower Read More »
