Bluffton Blues
Looking great in late July is the rare Southeast native perennial Scutellaria mellichampii ‘Bluffton Blues’.
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Meta Panics!
Well, I guess you could count this as horticultural click-bait, but we’re actually talking about one of our favorite small trees. Flowering today at JLBG is the amazing schefflera relative, Metapanax delavayi ‘Hei Shui’.
Shining the Night Light on a Dawn Redwood
We have long loved the North American native, dawn redwoods. Yes, you read it correctly…North American natives. As I always try to explain to the scientifically challenged, native is not a place in location, but instead only a place in time. Metasequoia went extinct in North America, a mere 7.5 million years ago, primarily because
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Orca – A Whale of a Tale
Looking good in a JLBG container now is the amazing Agave ovatifolia ‘Orca’. This splendid creamy-edge selection of the whale-tongue century is a plant that probably shouldn’t exist, but the story is almost impossible to believe. In the early 2000s, a small group of intrepid west coast agave explorers were botanizing in remote regions of
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Cute, but Deadly
One of our favorite summer flower natives, that’s looking great in the water garden now, is the stunning water hemlock, Cicuta maculata. Although it’s native across all of North America, it’s rarely grown in gardens. Perhaps this is because nurseries like us, are terrified to offer a perennial plant that contains such a highly effective
Mystery Maple
We’re all familiar with maple trees, but one of our favorite smaller maples in the garden is the little-known, single-lobed, evergreen Acer cordatum. This fascinating group of maples have foliage that looks nothing like what most people know as a maple. This Chinese species was formerly considered a form of Acer laevigatum, before being elevated
Bhutanning in the Sun
A nice surprise has been our unexpected success with growing the Bhutan cypress, Cupressus torulosa. This conifer, which can reach 100′ in the wild is generally considered not reliably winter hardy here in Zone 7b/8a. Despite this, our seven year old plant is still thriving, with no winter issues so far, even at a low
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Spider Web Baptisia
Looking absolutely dazzling in the garden now, is the star of the genus, Baptisia arachnifera. This superb garden plant from only two counties in Coastal Georgia, is very easy to grow, but sadly very rare in the wild. It’s Federally Endangered status is due to most (95%) of its habitat being crowded out by commercial
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Star-Crossed Vine
One of many horticultural oddities to grace the JLBG gardens is this fascinating, variegated selection of our native cross vine, Bignonia capreolata. This Tennessee selection, named Bignonia ‘Jeana’s Jewel’ was discovered and shared by plantswoman, Jeana Prewitt, who is also the namesake of the popular Phlox ‘Jeana’. Although we love this oddity, I can’t imagine
Gruesome Grusonia
A plant that’s really thriving in our summer heat and drought is the Southwest US (Arizona, Texas, New Mexico) native cactus, Grusonia emoryi. This colorful, compact, rock garden-sized specimen, matures at 1′ tall x 3′ wide, with great age. If you have free-range pets, who like to play with such plants, you may want to