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Plant Delights Nursery/Juniper Level Botanic Gardens Open Nursery and Gardens

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  Tomorrow begins our long-awaited Spring Open Nursery and Garden!  The gardens have never looked better, so we hope you’ll join us to celebrate all things plants.  Here are two photos from the gardens today…one from the newly opened sunny section. While you are here, you can shop our greenhouses filled with perennial plant treasures.

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PDN Congratulations to Dr. Richard Olsen

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A special Plant Delights congratulations to former PDN’er and NCSU graduate, Dr. Richard Olsen, who was just appointed the new Director of your U.S. National Arboretum in Washington DC. Since finishing his PhD at NCSU in 2006, Richard has worked as a tree breeder with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  Richard is an amazing plantsman,

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Cypripedium ‘Hank Small’ ladyslipper orchid

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I remember when I discovered we could actually grow ladyslipper orchids in the garden, despite so many stories of them being impossible to cultivate.  The reality is that one ladyslipper, Cypripedium acaule is tough to move.  Otherwise, they’re easy.  I just took this photo of our clump of Cypripedium ‘Hank Small’…32 flowers this year!  I

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Painted ferns for the garden

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Here are a couple of fern images from the garden yesterday.  First is our giant painted fern, Athyrium ‘Godzilla’, which can reach 6′ wide x 3′ tall.  To avoid chlorophyll shed in the garden, it’s best planted a far distance from Hosta ‘Mothra’ or Hosta ‘Rhodan’. Here is the lovely Athyrium nipponicum ‘Burgandy Lace‘..hard to

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Iris cristata in flower

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The dwarf native woodland iris, Iris cristata are in flower here today.  Iris ‘Montrose White’ was introduced by Montrose Gardens in NC.  Iris cristata is native in shade, but flowers much better when given a couple of hours of sun. Iris cristata ‘Powder Blue Giant’ is incredibly floriferous in the garden today.  These spring flowering

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Epimediums on Parade in the Garden

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What an incredible week for epimediums here at Juniper Level.  The first photo is our introduction, Epimedium ‘Songbirds‘…an insanely heavily flowered yellow selection. Epimedium wushanense ‘Starlite‘ is our selection of the amazing Chinese species, which boasts large terminal inflorescences on a plant that approaches 2’ tall.     Epimedium zhushanense is another incredible Chinese species

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