Last week, Zac and I made our first visit to the Dutch enclave in the Terra Ceia region of coastal NC. This region was founded in the 1930s and 1940s, when several Dutch families arrived in America, after fleeing problems back in the homeland, looking for inexpensive land on which to farm. Back in the
Below is our SC collection of Andropogon glaucopsis, looking outstanding in the garden this week. This native gem can be found growing in swamps, scattered from SC through much of the gulf coast. We’re testing its adaptability to non-bog settings, and so far, it’s doing amazingly well. For years, this was considered a subspecies of
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Flowering this month is one of my favorite curiosities, Grandma’s hat pins. Eriocaulon decangulare hails from costal habits from New Jersey south to Texas, where it can be found in bogs and swamps. They thrive in the same conditions as pitcher plants. Perhaps it’s time to send some seed to the nursery since we haven’t
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