The New Fall 2015 Plant Delights Nursery catalog is now on-line with lots of great new goodies, like the plants picture below. We hope you’ll find a few that you can’t garden without. Enjoy! . Agave ‘Ivory Curls’ Fatsia ‘Murakumo Nishiki’ Helleborus ‘Pipa’s Purple’ Lycoris x rosea ‘Neon Nights’ Monarda ‘Bubblegum Blast’ Podophyllum ‘Spotty Dotty’
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One of our favorite summer garden plants are the amorphophallus (love lilies), and in particular, Amorphophallus kiusianus. The foliage, which doesn’t emerge before mid-June, resembles a miniature palm tree. This species is very rot resistant, compared to some of the other hardy species. Amorphophallus kiusianus also sets seed
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This is such an incredible time of year for crinum lily flowering…Here is Crinum ‘Rose Parade‘ looking fine this week, despite the hot temperatures. Crinum x baconii ‘Maureen Spinks’…one of our personal favorites; one of the many milk and wine crinum lilies which thrives in both our summers and our winters. Crinum ‘Stars and Stripes’ is
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Jasper and Henry playing hide and seek in the garden this week. Jasper and Henry engaging in some brotherly tussling. After break, it’s back to work for Henry, whose finally mastered using a laptop cursor after eating his mouse.
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Anita and I just celebrated our 2nd anniversary this week…two years that have flown by. My world has been opened to so many things I never knew existed before we were married, and the learning is only just beginning. I still can’t believe I’m blessed to have such an amazing person with which to share
One of my favorite euphorbias is the widespread US native, the deciduous Euphorbia corollata, which flowers for month in the garden. Here is our garden clump today…resembling a baby’s breath, but much more tolerant of humid summers. And for something completely different, here is the evergreen Euphorbia x martinii ‘Ascot Rainbow’ in the garden today. It
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The cardinal flowers are simply stunning in the garden now. Above is Lobelia ‘Monet Moment’. The key for successful cultivation is a moist soil and being sure the winter rosette remains uncovered. This is Lobelia ‘Compliment Deep Red’…another of our favorites, flowering now.
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I recently caught this gal making a deposit in the garden. Unlike cats, which do this to deposit other things, she’s leaving us a pile of box turtle eggs…how cool is that.
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We love Southwestern plants, and were thrilled this year to have so many dasylirions bloom. Unlike their agave relatives, dasylirions don’t die after flowers. Also, unlike agaves, each plant is either male or female. We haven’t had good luck getting both to flower the same year until now. Here is a female
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