Plant images from the garden and nursery

Flowering in the garden now is one of our new 2015 introductions that will be available for the first time next year…finally!  The flowers on this wild ginger are truly huge, as reflected in the name.

I just snapped this photo of Helleborus ‘Penny’s Pink’ showing its incredible foliage in the garden…who needs flowers when the leaves look this good.  By the way, it’s also completely sterile.  Check out our incredible selection of lenten roses!

Ipheion uniflorum ‘Greystone’ is looking simply superb in our garden now…an introduction from North Carolina’s own Norman Beal.  This is the most floriferous white-flowered starflower we grow.  Part sun is ideal.

Outside of plant collector circles, few gardeners know of twinleaf…especially the rarer Asian cousin of a plant named after Thomas Jefferson, Jeffersonia dubia.  When we wanted to try it years ago, we were told emphatically that it would not grow in the hot, humid south.  Well…another gardening myth busted since here is our several year

In flower now at JLBG is the amazing Lychnis ‘Rolly’s Favorite’.  We’ve grown this in the garden for years and it’s proven very easy and reliable in both sun and part shade, brightening up the garden every year in late winter and early spring.  We strongly recommend this if you have a pink-themed garden section.

From the gardens here at Juniper Level is Iris unguicularis ‘Dazzling Eyes‘…a Rick Tasco selection of the wonderful winter-blooming iris.  These are simply glorious right now.  We recommend either full or part sun for best performance.

Just snapped this photo of the wonderful native groundcover, Erigeron pulchellus ‘Lynnhaven Carpet;.  In either light shade or part sun, this is a real gem, especially now when it flowers, but it’s even attractive without flowers.  We really like this!

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!