Plant images from the garden and nursery

Primula ‘Drumcliff’ is flowering now with its unique brown/dark-green foliage and contrasting near white, yellow-centered. flowers.

  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

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.

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!

Just snapped this photo of the lovely panda-face wild ginger, Asarum maximum in the garden today!

Is winter really gone?  Inquiring cats want to know.

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.

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.