For those who like seriously esoteric plants, Ruscus hypoglossom ‘Mr. Lonely’ is in full flower today in the garden…how truly quaint! Despite the minuscule flowers, Ruscus makes a superb evergreen groundcover in dry shade.
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Here’s Hosta ‘Designer Genes’ in the garden today, after dodging the predicted frost last night (we only recorded 38 degrees at the nursery). Like the sun peaking over the horizong, I love the way this hosta emerges in spring!
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Asarum maximum ‘Shell Shocked’ is quite stunning in the garden today. Here it is in full flower in our woodland garden taken yesterday. This selection is dramatically more vigorous and floriferous than any other clone of the panda ginger we’ve grown.
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Greetings PDNers! Nursery Update—Made it through Winter It’s been quite a late winter at Juniper Level/Plant Delights, with the latest-occurring single digit temperature we’ve seen since our records began in the 1970s. Plants like hellebores in bloom when the cold snap hit have recovered, although flowers that were fully open or nearly so were slightly
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I just snapped this photo of Helleborus ‘Merlin’ in the garden…the flowers are a mysterious dusty pink. This is one of the sterile Christmas rose hybrids with outfacing flowers, and silver-veined foliage.
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I spent the weekend enjoying winter garden clean-up and moving a few plants around. This time of year, the garden is like an Easter egg hunt, with treasures popping through the ground everywhere you look. I was thrilled to discover a huge crop of aspidistra seed, which we’ll plant shortly. Most folks move through the
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Here’s another new image of Epimedium wushanense ‘Sandy Claws‘, flowering now…hard not to get excited about these gems.
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We’re very pleased to have an incredible selection of fabulous epimediums for sale. Here’s Epimedium ‘Pink Champagne‘…a Darrell Probst introdution, in the cold frames today. You’ll just love our epimedium offerings!
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In case you aren’t on our email list, we just added a large number of new hellebores to the website, including some quantity discounts where supplies allow. FYI, the photo above is Helleborus x hybridus ‘Red Sapphire’. Once these are gone, that’s all the hellebores we’ll have for the rest of the year!
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One of the first plants to flower in the moist woodland are the lovely heloniopsis. Here’s Heloniopsis orientalis ‘Purple Sprite’ in flower today. Heloniopsis was a former member of the giant Lily family, until the great taxonomic breakup moved it into the Melanthiaceae family. The easy-to-grow Heloniopsis (Zone 5a-8b) are a great way to add
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