The summer surprise lily season kicks into full gear around July 15, so it’s time to share those who graced us with their presence from July 15-July 31. Because we grow over 1,100 cultivars of lycoris, we have an abundance in flower every day from early July until early October. Flowering time for each stem […]
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We were thrilled to recently welcome two stalwarts of the Southeastern Palm Society to JLBG, on their way to a SPS meeting in nearby High Point, NC. Tom McClendon (l), and Joe LeVert (r), have been two of the folks most responsible for the success of the society over the last few decades. Both gentlemen
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Looking good in a JLBG container now is the amazing Agave ovatifolia ‘Orca’. This splendid creamy-edge selection of the whale-tongue century is a plant that probably shouldn’t exist, but the story is almost impossible to believe. In the early 2000s, a small group of intrepid west coast agave explorers were botanizing in remote regions of
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One of our favorite summer flower natives, that’s looking great in the water garden now, is the stunning water hemlock, Cicuta maculata. Although it’s native across all of North America, it’s rarely grown in gardens. Perhaps this is because nurseries like us, are terrified to offer a perennial plant that contains such a highly effective
We were recently bushhogging an overflow nursery parking area, which is a fallow field, that includes quite a few tree seedlings, primarily Liquidambar styraciflua. During the six-hour mowing exercise, I discovered three different variegated clones of our native sweet gum, each growing about 100 feet apart. Recent research has documented that mowing off woody plants
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As early July rolls around, our buffalo gourds in the garden are looking like, well, like buffalo gourds. Ibervillea lindheimeri is an odd North American native member of the squash family, occurring naturally from Oklahoma south into Northern Mexico. At ground level, it forms a rather nice caudex (swollen plant base), that’s highly prized by
Ten months ago, we wrote about our purchase of a special, one of a kind, variegated form of Agave utahensis, that we named Agave ‘Liberty’. Because of its size, we knew it would be flowering soon, and as such, permanently lost. Before it initiated flower buds, we beheaded it, which in theory, should cause it
An update on our Liberty Read More »
We’ve just wrapped up another successful Southeastern Plant Symposium with nearly 250 attendees in-person and online. With a dozen amazing speakers, spanning the globe, everyone left with a greatly expanded knowledge, new friendships, and hopefully, something from the rare plant auction that featured over 590 amazing plants. Proceeds from the auction are split between the
On a recent Saturday morning, I took a little time away from the garden, to visit a couple of local natural areas, prompted in part by our Facilites Manager, Nathan Rahrig, who had located a colony of 3’+ tall Arisaema pusillum nearby. The first stop was a set of narrow streams, carved through a mild
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If you’ve studied plant migrations, you no doubt realize that many North American species, also have nearly identical Asian counterparts. One such plant is our native sensitive fern, Onoclea sensibilis. In the US, it can be found throughout most of the Eastern US, but we wanted to compare it to its’ Asian sibling, Onoclea sensibilis
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