One of the plants widely promoted by the late JC Raulston was the old cultivar, Nandina domestica ‘Filamentosa’. Although it will never been widely grown, since it doesn’t bear the bright red fruit, what it adds texturally to a garden is truly irreplaceable. Below is our patch in mid November, as the foliage takes on
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With a large diversity of plants, the garden looks different almost daily. Here’s a recent scene featuring Deutzia ‘Nikko’ (white flowers, front), Nandina domestica ‘Twilight’ (pinkish center), Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Chirimen’ (left of the nandina) and Acer palmatum ‘Kashima’ (behind the Chirimen).
I’ve never been a huge fan of nandinas in the garden. I find the more typical forms very difficult to integrate from a design perspective, and I find the popular Nandina ‘Firepower’ to be near the top of the list of most grotesquely ugly plants used in American landscapes. Yes, it’s colorful, but the plant
