Plant Delights website is back up
Ok…the PDN website is back on-line. Sorry for the still unexplained snafu!
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Plant Delights Website is down
Morning folks! We know the PDN website just went down and are working with our E-commerce vendor to get it back up asap. We’ll keep you posted. Thanks for your patience.
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Pig’s Butt Arum flowering
Also flowering this weekend was the “lovely” pig’s butt arum, Helicodiceros muscivorus. This odd aroid produces flowers that look, feel, and smell like the back side of a pig. There should of these be more in flower for the second open house weekend, so be sure and sniff around the gardens while you’re here. After
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Athyrium ‘Ocean’s Fury’ (Hybrid Crested Silver Fern)
Here’s another hybrid fern that I would hate to garden without, Athyrium ‘Ocean’s Fury’. This gem from NC’s Thurman Maness is a cross of our native lady fern with the Japanese painted fern. The silvery leaves and petticoat tips are just fabulous!
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Athyrium ‘Ghost’ – Hybrid Silver Lady Fern
Here’s a garden photo from this weekend of one of our favorite fern hybrids, Athyrium ‘Ghost‘…a lovely texture and color and so easy to grow.
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New JLBG garden section
Open house visitors also got to see our newest garden installation…a four seasons garden near the sales greenhouses that features many of the smaller plants which are at peak show during each of our four open house seasons. Our own research horticulturist Jeremy Schmidt did the the bed design and rock work and here’s garden
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A view from Open Nursery and Garden first spring weekend
It was great to see so many visitors for our first spring open nursery and garden weekend. If you didn’t make it, or haven’t been in a while, here’s a photo of the main nursery and garden entrance driveway from this weekend…the Chionanthus virginicus (fringe trees) were in full bloom.
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Epimedium ‘Splish Splash’
I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to photograph epimediums, but it’s not an easy task…especially the white-flowered cultivars. I was finally able get a decent shot of our Epimedium ‘Splish Splash’ this week and wanted to share it. With our cool spring, epimediums have had a very long flowering period.
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Saponaria caroliniana ‘Short and Sweet’
Here’s a native rock garden plant that’s just been so superb this spring that I had to share this photo…Silene caroliniana ‘Short and Sweet‘…full sun in the rock garden, growing among the agaves.
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Agapanthus ‘Notfred’ ovewintered
I was so thrilled this week to see that Agapanthus ‘Notfred‘ has overwintered this year. We’ve never has any of the variegated leaf agapanthus cultivars to survive a cold winter, so this is a real eureka moment.
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