Asarum maximum in flower
Just snapped this photo of the lovely panda-face wild ginger, Asarum maximum in the garden today!
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Jasper asks…Is winter really gone?
Is winter really gone? Inquiring cats want to know.
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Tibouchina urvilleana ‘Variegata’ – Wonderful Winter Foliage Color
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.
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Cardamine douglassii ‘Southern Lady’ in Bloom
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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Arisaema ringens Flower Opening
Here is another plant of Arisaema ringens in the garden that’s a few days further developed, and is already showing the cobra head flowering structure.
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Aspidistra elatior in Seed
While cutting back winter damaged cast iron plants in the garden, we discovered a nice seed crop on Aspidistra elatior ‘Asahi’. We expect the white leaf pattern to come true from seed, but we’ll see. Have you ever sown seed from your aspidistra?
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Asarum forbesii ‘Mercury’ wild ginger
Here is the wonderful woodland wild ginger, Asarum forbesii ‘Mercury’ in full flower here at Juniper Level Botanic Garden. We’ve grown this since the early 1990’s and this is the first year we’ve had enough to divide and share.
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Arisaema ringens emerging
The first of the cobra lilies has finally broken through the ground…here is Arisaema ringens in the garden yesterday. The leaf sheath opens to reveal the leaf and floral stalk.
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Crocus vernus ‘King of the Striped’
I had to share this photo from the gardens here at Juniper Level…Crocus vernus ‘King of the Striped’. We don’t carry crocus, but this new favorite came from our friends at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs. This is one large and seriously cool crocus!
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Epimedium ‘Pink Champagne’
This Darrell Probst introduction is looking so good in our cold frames today…I wish you could see it in person. Epimedium ‘Pink Champagne’ is a large growing, vigorous clumper that no shade garden should be without!
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