For those who have joined us as a Founding member of JLBG, our quarterly members only newsletter is now available for your reading pleasure. Below is a teaser from our Founder’s message to members. Summer 2024 has been an interesting one from a weather perspective. As of August 5, we had recorded 48 days above
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I just snapped this photo of one of the most fascinating summer-growing aroids in the garden. Englerarum is the Charlie Brown of the hardy elephant ear like aroids. It looks somewhat like an alocasia or colocasia, but after taking a DNA test in 2013, was kicked out of both genera, and left to its own
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We have long been fascinated with tissue culture, and it’s ability to produce a large number of difficult to propagate plants in a short time. Without tissue culture, many of the plants we grow in our gardens today, simply wouldn’t be available. New hostas, that we all enjoy, would still be priced north of $200
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Last weekend, Anita and I watched as one of our indoor cats, Jake, was glued to the glass door as a common box turtle sauntered, seemingly purposely down our 50′ long sidewalk and toward the door. It (he?/she?) finally stopped just a few feet short of the door, where it just sat and stared, with
We hope you can join us for our upcoming 2024 Summer Open Garden and Nursery, July 12-14 and 19-21. The garden is looking absolutely fabulous, with an incredible array of plants to see and design ideas to borrow. Our experts are scattered throughout the garden and nursery to answer your gardening questions. Summer open house
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Only 20 spaces remain for our first JLBG Endowment fundraiser on June 14 from 3-8pm. This is a first opportunity for visitors to tour Tony and Anita’s private home garden, located adjacent to JLBG. This link takes you on a short walking tour of some of the garden highlights. Below are a few images from
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We’re just over a week away from the amazing Southeastern Plant Symposium. If you aren’t signed up yet, we hope you’ll still join us for the 6th annual version of this amazing gardening event. So, who should attend? Anyone who has a true passion for both plants and in depth knowledge about them. Our symposium,
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Aren’t plants endlessly fascinating? Today in the nursery I noticed that the Pelargonium aridum had set a good crop of seed. A few had opened in the fascinating way that Pelargoniums and their close cousins in the genus Geranium do: each of the 3 carpels opening and reflexing upward on the central column of the
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Here’s a shot from JLBG this morning of the gardens in front of our Botanical Gardens and Nursery staff building…so many plants (Cercis, Phlomis, Agave, Yucca, Abies bornmuelleriana, Daphne, Chamaerops humilis var. argentea), so little time.
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We were delighted to welcome You Tube Garden Celebrity Summer Rayne Oakes and her business partner Sander van Dijk to film at JLBG and PDN recently. Below, they are filming a segment with our Head of Production/Propagation, Aaron Selby. Summer says they will have this segment edited and posted in the next few months. Summer
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