False lily-of-the-valley (Speirantha gardenii) is one of our favorite early spring-flowering evergreen groundcovers for shade, but one that just hasn’t caught on with customers. Every time we put this back in production at Plant Delights, we wind up throwing out most of the crop. Perhaps one day, folks will realize what a gem this is.
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Flowering now in the woodland garden is this rad little windflower, Anemone raddeana. This Asian native (China, Japan, Korea, and Russia) is a plant you’ll almost never see for sale. First, it flowers in the middle of winter when few people are thinking about gardening. Secondly, it’s ridiculously small, producing only a single white flower
Chionanthus retusus ‘China Snow’, a heavy flowering selection of Chinese fringe tree has been stunning for several weeks in the gardens at JLBG. This amazing Don Shadow selection is far more floriferous than the species, which was already quite spectacular.
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We’ll never get tired of growing plants from seed and the anticipation of seeing what unique traits might arise. This week, we were thrilled to “discover” our first white oxblood lily, Rhodophiala bifida in our research trials. We deflowered it this week with its own pollen in the hopes of producing more white clones. Fingers
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We’d like to sing the praises of the amazing Cyclamen coum. Here are photos from the garden today. These start flowering for us in mid-February and continue until April, after which time, they go summer dormant, re-emerging in fall. The secret to success is to plant them near trees/shrubs where they will remain dry in
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If you weren’t able to make it to our Winter Open Gardens and Nursery, here are some hellebore photos we took this morning. The first is the amazing Helleborus ‘Anna’s Red’. We’ll be adding more hellebores on-line after open house ends tomorrow (Sunday), but we really hope you can
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One of our favorite native plants is in full flower in the garden…the unusual white-topped sedge. Dichromena (Rhynchospora) latifolia makes a slowly spreading patch that resembles a carex until the odd white flower spikes occur in mid-summer. Although it usually is found in seasonally flooded sites, we have found it also makes a great specimen
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The dwarf native woodland iris, Iris cristata are in flower here today. Iris ‘Montrose White’ was introduced by Montrose Gardens in NC. Iris cristata is native in shade, but flowers much better when given a couple of hours of sun. Iris cristata ‘Powder Blue Giant’ is incredibly floriferous in the garden today. These spring flowering
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II I I wanted to share this photo I just shot of Cyclamen coum in the garden today. It’s been flowering for nearly a month and during that time endured snow, ice, and single digit temperatures. That’s one tough plant! Flower color ranges from hot pink through white…each seedling is different.
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I pass our clump of Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘White Surprise’ several times each day and am always impressed with what a great grower it is…and this is before the blue flowers even begin. Here it is in the garden today….I hope you agree!
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