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Few trees can hold the title of the earliest to flower and the latest to flower…except Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis Rosea’. This amazing tree is in full flower now at JLBG after gracing us with a superb show in late fall. Prunus x subhirtella is a group of flowering hybrids between the Japanese Prunus incisa

Here’s another example of the fun combos that can be created in the winter garden. Here is Ophiopogon japonicus ‘Kyoto’ in the middle of a patch of Ajuga reptans ‘Planet Zork’, backed by Sedum palmeri ‘Mendoza’…love the use of groundcovers.

This was a fun color echo we caught right before our first frost as the last of the monarchs stocked up on food before their International flight left for their winter vacation in Mexico. Cestrum (Solanaceae) seems to be a monarch favorite in our garden. Hopefully, we have someone who can work on producing a

Sarracenia rosea looked particularly adorable this week under a light snowfall. Everything melted within a day, but it looks like we might see more this weekend.

This is the week that we had expected to welcome hundreds of participants from all over the world to the 2020 Southeastern Plant Symposium in Raleigh, NC, but world events had other plans. So, we shifted gears and put together a replacement on-line symposium that will take place this Friday June 12 from 10am-3pm. This

This past week I went to our catalog printer in Lynchburg, VA for the press check of our Fall Catalog. The whole scope of the process and vast size of the printing presses is quite fascinating. A printed copy of the cover off the press is compared to the initial proof and any minor tweaks