Last Thursday, our sunken garden rock wall construction project began, with the goal of converting a rather boring 130′, dry stacked rock wall, built in 2003, into a more imaginative, botanically diverse rock garden space. As mentioned in an earlier blog, we hired former JLBG staffer, Jerermy Schmidt, now of Hortco, to design and manage
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Here is a revised version of this blog with the correct link to Almost Eden’s website. It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Jeff McMillan and his family and staff at Almost Eden mail order nursery in Merryville, Louisiana. Like many of us, they have been struggling with financial issues over the
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It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Jeff McMillan and his family and staff at Almost Eden mail order nursery in Merryville, Louisiana. Like many of us, they have been struggling with financial issues over the last few years, and it appears the end has finally arrived. Jeff still hopes to sell
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After having the same personalized plate for over 45 years, it was finally time to turn our faded, unreadable tag to the Motor Vehicles office, in exchange for a new one, which recently arrived. In NC, much of the income from personalized plates goes to an array of efforts including highway beautification and plant preservation.
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During our recent Summer Open Nursery and Garden, I was able to spend a good bit of time with former JLBG staffer, Jeremy Schmidt, now of HortCo, to discuss our plans to rework an old rock wall in our Sunken Garden. With our plans now in place, we have already begun to relocate existing plants,
Many folks who visit JLBG have asked about former staffer, Jeremy Schmidt, who departed almost three years ago for a stint at Alabama’s Bellingrath Gardens. In the 15 years Jeremy was here, he installed our 300′ long crevice garden, our 550′ rock lined stream, several other garden streams, our dryland welcome berm, and countless other
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2026 marks 40 years, since we began the now, world-renown gardens at JLBG. Whether you’re a regular open house visitor, or someone who hasn’t stopped by in a while, we hope you’ll join us to celebrate our Ruby Anniversary. We have two weekends remaining for our spring public open days, so we look forward to
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Last week, we were thrilled to welcome the staff of SC’s Woodlanders Nursery to visit JLBG. We have been huge fans of this small nursery, based in Aiken SC, since its inception in the late 1970s. Woodlanders was founded by architects, Robert and Julia Macintosh (deceased), who settled in Aiken, SC in the 1970s, after
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I was saddened to learn of the recent passing (April 4) of one of the most amazing horticulture figures, I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing, the incomparable Pearl Fryar. It was 30 years ago this month, when I was speaking at South Carolina’s Brookgreen Garden, that we first met. Pearl was speaking ahead of
So many folks think running a nursery is such a pastoral, relaxing career, but as with most things in life, the realities are quite different….especially during the winter months. We have 30 greenhouse cold frames, which are kept at two different temperature regimens, 35F, and 55F, depending on the needs of the plants growing in
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