Sorry this didn’t post correctly earlier…my bad. While Wayne directed the drone flight path over the nursery and garden, Richard directed the camera through his on-ground monitor.
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The drone soared to several hundred feet above the nursery and gardens, taking incredible video which we are now having edited. As soon as the videos are complete, we’ll post them to the website providing a virtual tour of our facilities for those who can’t visit in person. All in all, a fascinating experience. If
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Parts of the garden and nursery were filmed with the drone at low elevations, although anything below 6′ kicks up so much dust and debris that it obscures the camera. Safety is also of utmost importance since drone collisions with people are far too common.
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The drone lifts off from its landing platform and flies through and over the garden. The high resolution aerial camera is hung from a self leveling device which allows it to take perfect video despite moving.
This week we welcomed the Helicam Aerial Media folks to Plant Delights/Juniper Level Botanic Garden to take aerial drone photos of the nursery and garden. Wayne, Denise, and Richard Mann of Randleman, NC are the owners and creators of these drones, which they use to film everything from television shows to truck commercials around the
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And here’s one of our more unique hosta introductons looking good in the gardens today. Unlike many narrow, wavy leaf hostas which loose their unique wavy leaves once established in the garden, Hosta ‘Electrocution’ continues to maintain this look. This is a small to medium size clump, maturing around 28″ wide,
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Our clump of Salvia ‘Amistad‘ in the garden is finally starting to flower. This was a real test winter for this new introduction, and only 1 of our 4 garden clumps survived the winter, so we’ve changed our preliminary hardiness rating from 7b-10, guessing to Zone 8a. We’re obviously disappointed, but we’ll continue to grow
We have really enjoyed Penstemon murrayanus, which has been flowering outside our back door for nearly a month. This native beardtongue has unique powder blue cup-like leaves that combine with the bright orange-red flowers for a truly unique look. Penstemon murrayanus likes well-drained soils and bright light.
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Many years ago, I was driving down a rural back road in upstate South Carolina and had one of those “what was that” moments. Turning around, I located the population of wide, blue-leaf Eryngium yuccifolium that had caught my eye at 55mph. Securing a division from the small population, I returned home and planted it
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Looking really good in the gardens now is Clematis ‘Sapphire Indigo’. This unique hybrid between the vining mailbox clematis and the small-flowered bush clematis has been superb in our trials, flowering virtually non-stop all summer. Instead of making a vine, Clematis ‘Sapphire Indigo’ sprawls to 2′ wide, creating incredible color combinations with neighboring perennials…a designers
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