It’s that time of year when we open the gardens and nursery once again, so visitors can see what’s possible in the garden during the summer months. From July 11-13 and 18-20, the JLBG and PDN plant experts will be here to answer your garden questions or just talk plants. If you’ve got plants or
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Hello friends of JLBG! Alycia Thornton here—Director of Philanthropy, occasional plant punner, and your guest narrator for a very special blog takeover. I’m commandeering the JLBG blog today with some exciting news that’s as rare as an Amorphophallus titanum blooming on a Tuesday. Tony Avent—yes, our Tony Avent—has been awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by
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We never know who will show up at our Open Nursery days, but it was great to chat with Jim and Stephany Putnam of HortTube at our recent open weekend. This local couple do so much to promote gardening and share good plant information all over the country…we salute your amazing work! Here is a
Walmart may have official greeters, but we have check out Jasper. The twelve year-old Jasper Avent serves both as our official greeter, checkout guardian, and official tour guide. We’re sure many of you have had the chance to meet, chat, and walk the gardens with Jasper when you visited.
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
Just over three years ago, we blogged about our new laser engraver that we purchased for labeling plants in the garden at JLBG. Since we were completely new to the experience at the time, and now have three years in our rear view mirror, we thought it was time for an update. We had no
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Kudos to our Digital Marketing/Social Media Specialist, Lidia Churakova, who, in her other life, is an amazing artist. Lidia was selected to create a City of Raleigh street mural, just finished in downtown Raleigh. Virtually all of our PDN/JLBG on-line videos are filmed and edited by Lidia. She also created our new JLBG logo and
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 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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