Evergreen (and evergold) perennials are a great addition to your garden. They add texture, color, and form during the winter months when many perennials go dormant. Carex ‘Everillo’ not only adds texture and form with its thin leaves and weeping habit, but it also brightens woodland or lightly shaded garden with its bright gold color. […]
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We were delighted this week to welcome Irish nurseryman/marketer Pat Fitzgerald. This was the first time we’d met in person, although we’ve corresponded on-line for years. We had a wonderful time walking through the gardens and sharing our excitement about new plants on the horizon. Pat is best known for his amazing line of carex
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We’ve been growing Carex ‘Silk Tassel’ for nearly three decades and it is one of our woodland ornamental grasses. The very narrow variegated leaves are an absolutely delightful texture, although it’s hard to photograph well. Here’s our latest attempt to capture it as the new growth emerges in the garden this week.
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We’ve raved about the gold-foliaged, evergreen Carex oshimensis ‘Everillo’, but always for the foliage. Today, we want to rave about its amazing floral show. Here are photos from the garden taken yesterday as it sports its late-winter flowers. We trim the old foliage back to better enjoy the show
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Here’s a combination shot from the gardens at Juniper Level today, featuring one of our favorite perennials, the evergreen Carex ‘Everillo’…love the foliage color and the texture. In light shade or morning sun, the golden color holds all season. In more shade, the foliage turns more chartreuse green in the summer.
One of our favorite native plants is in full flower in the garden…the unusual white-topped sedge. Dichromena (Rhynchospora) latifolia makes a slowly spreading patch that resembles a carex until the odd white flower spikes occur in mid-summer. Although it usually is found in seasonally flooded sites, we have found it also makes a great specimen
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Greetings from Plant Delights where we hope the march toward colder weather finds everyone’s garden ready for winter. We’d like to start by sharing a few recent changes at Plant Delights, including our long-time Shipping and Customer Service Manager, Dianne Austin who decided to leave NC and return to her Texas roots to be near
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I have to begin the newsletter with a congratulations to American Idol winner, Scotty McCreery from just a few minutes up the road in Garner…well done! We wish him and all the other top contestants well as they embark on their musical careers…hope some of ‘em have an interest in gardening as well. No doubt
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The 2001 catalogs were mailed on Wednesday January 3. If you don’t receive your catalog before too long, let us know and we will try again. Local catalogs will be recieved first (usually 2-4 days). After this, customers along the I-95 corridor will begin to see there catalogs arrive (usually 4-7 days). Large cities in
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