The wine cups, Callirhoe involucrata are so amazing in the garden, I wish everyone could see them now. These long-flowering, drought-tolerant, vertically-challenged hibiscus cousins are amazing groundcover perennials. Callirhoes come in white, wine-red, and this mauvy form, Callirhoe involucrata var. tenuissima. If you have full sun and like this color theme, you’ve got to try […]
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I’ll bet most folks haven’t heard of Ammocharis coranica…your loss. We grew this amazing crinum lily relative for years before we saw it in the wilds of South Africa, where it grew in roadside ditches along a small section of our route. Here’s a photo from the gardens today…it thrived though our brutal NC winter.
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How could you not love such an inviting plant as the Mediterranean native aroid Dracunculus vulgaris, flowering now at Juniper Level Botanic Gardens. Anyone who thinks mother nature doesn’t have a sense of humor has never grown dracunculus. Dracunculus often emerge in February, flower now, and go dormant by early June. Amazingly, they are winter
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I hope you’ve grown some of the amazing bush clematis, including Clematis integrifolia ‘Rose Colored Glasses’ from the gardens here at Juniper Level. I love this plant which continues to flower sporadically through the summer. Mature height is 20″ to 24″ tall with good sun and good drainage.
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Here’s a shot of our patch of Dianthus ‘Feurehexe‘ in the garden…such an amazing display of insanely fragrant flowers…smells like spicy chocolate to me. Good drainage and bright sun are the key to success, so their perfect for a rock garden.
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Here’s another plant that thrilled us with how well it went through the winter here at Juniper Level Botanic Gardens…Verbena ‘Lavender Frappe’. This Brazilian native makes a short 1″ tall groundcover that just flowers non-stop for months, and as you can see, is the earliest verbena to begin flowering for us. I just can’t say
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Here’s a very special plant from the gardens here at Juniper Level that’s just stunning today, Gymnocalycium ‘Paradise Pink’. This hybrid of G. gibbosum x G. baldinianum was created by PDN garden staffer, Mike Papay. It’s hard to do this justice to this beauty in a photo, but it’s really amazing. We are thrilled that
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The native Phlox ‘Minnie Pearl’ has been simply incredible in the garden this spring…in bloom for weeks already and still looking great. Phlox ‘Minnie Pearl’ is the first to flower of the upright phlox, and in our trials has never shown any sign of mildew. You’ve never grown a phlox like this.
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First cousin to the commonly-known scilla is the related, but little-known Hyacinth family genus Drimiopsis. Here is one of my favorites from the garden today, Drimiopsis maculata ‘Slow Fade’, named and introduced by our friends at Yucca Do. This dwarf gem sailed though the cold winter and is already in full flower as you can
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I recently snapped this garden photo of the little known crinum lily, Crinum hildebrandtii. For us, this is the first crinum lily to flower each season, even earlier than Crinum bulbispermum. We were thrilled to see it sail through this winter with no protection, despite being native to Madagascar.
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