No, it’s not a microscopic closeup of the leg of a fly or an movie extra from “Men in Black”. It’s the top of a cycad, Cycas taitungensis once we removed the winter damaged fronds this week….pretty cool!
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Primula ‘Drumcliff’ is flowering now with its unique brown/dark-green foliage and contrasting near white, yellow-centered. flowers.
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T We just snapped this photo of a blush pink-flowered bloodroot seedling in our trial beds, that originated from a pink-tinged plant we found in the mountains of Virginia many years ago. The new leaf, flower bud, and outer petals are pink, while the center is almost pure white. Perhaps one day, we’ll have
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We just took this photo of a cute little cactus in the gardens here at Juniper Level, Pediocactus knowltonii. All the cactus experts said this wouldn’t survive our wet, cold winters, so we planted it with earplugs when it went in the ground a year ago.
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Fargesia sp. ‘Scabrida’ has quickly become one of my favorite clumping bamboos. The leaves of this gem are the largest of any of the fargesias that we grow, and it came through our brutal winter without a blemish. Our garden plants which celebrate six years in the ground this week are 7′ tall x 7′
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One of our fabulous southeast native shrub mints is in superb flower today in the cold frames at Plant Delights…Conradina canescens ‘Gray Ghost’…very easy to grow in well-drained soils, and hot sunny sites. The leaves are minty strong!
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Just snapped this photo of the lovely panda-face wild ginger, Asarum maximum in the garden today!
Asarum maximum in flower Read More »
Is winter really gone? Inquiring cats want to know.
Jasper asks…Is winter really gone? Read More »
We keep our potted tibouchina plants in the cold frames over winter, where the leaves take on this incredible pink coloration when exposed to cooler temperatures. Where tibouchina isn’t winter hardy outdoors, it makes an incredible house plant for a cooler room in the house.
Tibouchina urvilleana ‘Variegata’ – Wonderful Winter Foliage Color Read More »
As an experiment, we planted some of the native, woodland-growing Cardamine douglassii ‘Southern Lady’ in full sun last year to see if it would survive. We figured since it goes summer dormant, it should work fine. Well, here is a photo from the gardens yesterday…a smashing success. It is interesting and unexpected that it started
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