The Chinese Paeonia obovata is one of the few peony species that’s grown as much for its seed as for its flowers…the seed last much longer. Here’s a photo I just snapped in the garden of its amazing seed pods. Be sure to see this when you visit this weekend for our final Open Nursery
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In flower today are the lovely oxblood lilies, Rhodophiala bifida. This Argentine native bulb emerges seemingly overnight without foliage. The 1′ tall stalks are topped with bright red, out-facing flowers…first cousin to hippeastrum (mistakenly known as amaryllis). About a month after rhodophialas finish flowerering, the winter growing leaves emerge and remain throughout the winter. Rhodophiala
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Curcuma longa ‘Snowdrift’ is looking fabulous in the garden now, suffering no damage from our recent cold winter. The is such a great plant for the woodland garden to add a tropical touch. Remember it doesn’t emerge before mid-to-late June.
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Brightening up the woodland garden today is the lovely Boehmeria ‘Glow Light’ There’s nothing like bright gold foliage to make a summer woodland garden come alive. Below is Boehmeria ‘Nichirin’. While this one grows slowly in light shade, we’ve found it much better in half day sun. Our oldest clump is now 6′ wide x
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I can think of few plants we grow that give us a much pleasure as Lychnis coronata ‘Orange Sherbet’ I just snapped this photo in our woodland garden, where it grows under a giant windmill palm near our back deck and flowers most of the summer…simply fantastic!
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Here’s Epimedium ‘Atlas’ in the gardens today…the range of great fairy wings available now is truly amazing. What a great way to add interest to the spring woodland garden.
Here’s an odd one from the garden…the unique Solomon’s seal, Polygonatum ‘Koryu’. Each leaf is adorned with a central raised dragon ridge, giving the leaf an interesting multi-colored appearance. Like most of the Solomon’s seals, this one is very easy to grow in moist to dry woodland soils, although very deep shade slows down the
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Here’s a photo of our Rohdea chinensis var. chinensis from Taiwan, flowering in the garden today. The flowers open greenish white and quickly change to this lovely soft orange. The unique floral fragrance is sort of fruit/alcoholic…hardy to really describe. The evergreen rohdeas prefer light woodland shade and average to moist soils.
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I just snapped this photo of one of my all-time spring garden favorites…the hardy orchid, Calanthe sieboldii. These easy-to-grow woodland orchids prefer average to slightly moist soil. We’re just a the tip of peak orchid season in the woodland gardens here at Juniper Level.
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It’s always exciting when you find a variegated plant in the wild, so here is one of our discoveries…a variegated sport on Cynoglossum virginicum…our native woodland Hound’s tonuge.
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