Here are a few photos of our garden specimens of Helleborus x hybridus this week. If you weren’t one of the 7,800 visitors who got to see these in person during our recent Winter Open Nursery and Garden, here’s what you missed. Although they look decent in photos, they are much better in person. Since
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I was just admiring the genetic instability of Camellia japonica ‘Your’s Truly’ in the garden this week. This 1949 introduction was named as a sport of Camellia japonica ‘Lady Vansittart’. Our plant regularly throws three different flower types. If genetic stability is your thing, this probably isn’t for you, but then, who are we to
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Flowering now in the garden is one of the rarest of the lenten rose hybrids, Helleborus x belcheri ‘Pink Ice’. This cross of the European Helleborus niger and the Chinese Helleborus thibetanus, was developed by Kevin Belcher at the UK’s Ashwood Nurseries. Since Helleborus thibetanus has been a miserable failure in our hot summer climates,
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While most gardeners are familiar with hybrid hellebores, those all originated with wild species. Although most lenten rose species are far less showy than their hybrid counterparts, there are some that are pretty nice in their own right. Once of these is Helleborus purpurescens, the source of much of the purple color in the Helleborus
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Flowering now in the garden is Daphne odora ‘Wild Winter’. This patterned leaf form was named and introduced by NC Nurseryman, Jason Stevens. The flowers are the same, super fragrant type of typical Daphne odora, which hails from Southern China, Vietnam, and Taiwan. In cultivation, good drainage is the key to success.
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In 1995, when we named our Edgeworthia chrysantha ‘Snow Cream’, few people had even heard of the plant genus, Edgeworthia. Thirty one years later, people are actually visiting the garden and asking about it by name. It is always a favorite during our Winter Open Nursery & Garden weekends when it is in full flower
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Looking good in the garden this week, are two of the Ice N’ Roses’, sterile lenten rose hybrids. Helleborus x glandorfensis ‘Ice N’ Roses Rose’ (top), and ‘Rosado’ (below). Because of the Helleborus niger parentage, all flowers face outward. Mark your calendar to visit the gardens during our Winter Open Nursery and Garden weekends, Feb.
Helleborus foetidus ‘Red Silver’ is looking great in the late winter garden. Not only is the evergreen foliage great, but the flowers have a lovely ring of lipstick on each flower tip. This European species thrives in both open shade and half day full sun, as long as the drainage is good.
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Of the 2,500+ named cultivars of Galanthus (snowdrops), only a small percentage have yellow ovaries. This trait was first noticed in 1974, with the discovery of Galanthus ‘Wendy’s Gold’, and since that time, gold has become one of the most highly prized traits in snowdrops. Although we have a relative small collection of 72 snowdrop
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