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Participants Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery, Raleigh, NC John Fairey Peckerwood Gardens, TX Carl Schoenfeld Yucca Do Nursery, TX Richard Hartlage NJ Parks System Ken Selody Atlock Farm, NJ – Tony Avent
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Participants Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery, Raleigh, NC Dan Hinkley Heronswood Nursery, Kingston, WA Darrell Probst Epimedium and Tricyrtis breeder, Hubbardston, MA Frank Bell Lexington, NC Pierre Bannerup Sunny Border Wholesale Nursery in Kensington, CT David DeRose Denver Botanic Garden in Denver, CO Mildred Pinell Foeckle Atlanta Botanical Garden in Atlanta, GA Kim Hawks Niche
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Participants Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery, NC Linda Erdman Guy Carolina Nursery, SC Scott Ogden Independent Garden Writer and Designer, TX Sean Hogan Cistus Nursery, OR Parker Sanderson Cistus Nursery, OR Carl Schoenfeld Yucca Do Nursery, TX Wade Roitsch Yucca Do Nursery, TX Bob McCartney Woodlanders Nursery, SC Chris Pellet OR, formerly of Paulson’s Roses
Red Neck Girl
Standing out in the garden in October is the dramatic North American (Northwestern Mexico) native, Salvia madrensis ‘Red Neck Girl’. This 2002 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction is still one of our most spectacular introductions. The winged red stems are the main feature through the summer months, but once fall arrives, the giant stalks of yellow flowers
Mailing Away
For those of us in the mail order nursery, the closure of any of our compatriots seems like a death in the family. As I’ve mentioned earlier this year, the decline in retail sales across many sectors has devastated the mail order garden industry. So many of the nurseries we value so highly are those
Is Phyllis Fancy?
In flower this week is one of the most amazing fall-flowering sages we grow, Salvia ‘Phyllis Fancy’. This Salvia leucantha hybrid is far more winter hardy than it’s parent. Below is our two decade old clump, that looks amazing in October. The mature height and spread are 7′ tall, so be sure to allow enough
The Bald Sages of Fall
Salvia glabrescens is a little-known (in gardening circles) woodland perennial sage from the mountains of Japan’s Honshu Island. We have been thrilled with their garden performance since 2005, but equally disappointed at their sales. Customers continually ask for fall-flowering plants for the woodland garden, yet fail to buy them when they are made available. Salvia
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Room for One More? No way!
Here is a photo of one our many superb rain lily selections, Zephyranthes ‘Summer Snow’. This is Not an exceptional display but a perfectly typical display that follows most every rain event in the summer. The rain lilies do not flower continuously but burst forth periodically over the many frost-free months of the year. One
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Funions in Spring
Below are a few of our favorite ornamental onions for the early spring season…all flowering now. There’s something about alliums in the garden that elicit smiles when they are in flower, compared to tears when we chop up their kin. Most early spring alliums are more bulbous, while many of the later, summer-flowering alliums grow