Looking absolutely dazzling in early August is our plant of Leucophyllum frutescens ‘Silver Spirit’. For decades we tried to grow this Southwestern US (Utah, Arizona, and Texas) native, but failed over and over again with winter survival, until Patrick McMillan shared cuttings of his Uvalde, Texas collection. After five years in the ground, it’s still […]
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It’s July, which means we’re enjoying the crazy flower clusters of Mucuna cyclocarpa. This vigorous, but non-invasive vine, from Southeastern China, flowers non-stop for us, from July until late September. The rubbery-feeling flowers resemble huge grape clusters. This self-sterile vine needs two clones to set viable seed, which is probably a good thing. Full sun,
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This very rare Japanese selection isn’t the most vigorous loquat we’ve ever grown, but it is one that we weren’t going to give up on until we were able to get it established.
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We’ve long been fascinated with hardy tuberous aroids, and one that we’ve long-loved and grown are from the little-known genus Remusatia. The genus contains only four species native to a large region spanning from the Himalayas to China.
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In the recent past the name lady fern referred to a wide ranging single species, which covered much of Europe, Northern Asia, and North America. However, recent taxonomic studies determined that Athyrium filix-femina was actually four distinct species that were all masquerading as one.
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Selaginella, also known as spikemosses, are the horticultural version of punk rockers.
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Looking great in late July is the rare Southeast native perennial Scutellaria mellichampii ‘Bluffton Blues’.
Well, I guess you could count this as horticultural click-bait, but we’re actually talking about one of our favorite small trees. Flowering today at JLBG is the amazing schefflera relative, Metapanax delavayi ‘Hei Shui’.
Our house cat, Jake, was recently caught salivating over the idea of wabbit soup for dinner.
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Here’s a favorite combination in the summer garden, featuring the pineapple lily, Eucomis ‘Purple Reign’, Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Chameleon’, Geranium ‘Azure Rush’, and the dryland fern, Astrolepis sinuata. This area gets about six hours of full sun daily, with average to dry soil moisture.
