Last year, we posted a grainy, bigfoot-worthy image of the new trout lily discovery, Erythronium umbillicatum ‘Parks Mill’. Now, that it’s better established, we thought it was worth of a better garden shot, although it’s still a single leaf. While this could probably be recreated via AI, it’s hard to plant an AI creation that
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Flowering this week are an array of winter flowering trout lilies of the genus Erythronium, a plant I’ve admired since being a young child, and seeing it grow naturally near our Raleigh, NC home. Erythronium is a genus of only 33 species, spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere. While many of the cold climate species won’t
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Looking great in the garden today is our collection of the native spring ephemeral trout lily, Erythronium harperi. This native to a small region on the Tennessee/Alabama border is currently considered a subspecies of E. americanum, but will most likely be elevated to species status before long. Unlike many running species, this remains a tight
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