Hellebores are the gems of the winter woodland garden. Hellebores, also known as lenten rose, come in a wide range colors and flower forms, they are deer resistant and drought tolerant once established. This year we are pleased to offer many new hellebore hybrids from the breeding work of Hans Hansen at Walters Gardens. We […]
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Cypripedium, Lady Slipper Orchids, is a genus of woodland garden plants that are among the most desired of all native hardy orchids for sale, despite their often finicky requirements. Plant Delights Nursery is excited about our bare root shipment of responsibly grown, flowering size, cypripedium orchids we received yesterday. These plants are nursery propagated and not collected
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We began growing sacred lilies back in the 1970s, when few people in the US, outside of a handful of fanatic collectors were growing them. The only large scale grower of the green species, Rohdea japonica, was our friends, the late Sam and Carleen Jones of Georgia’s Piccadilly Farms. Despite being very easy to grow,
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One of the most difficult parts of our job is to try and predict which plants will sell well. We’d like to think that our favorites would also be your favorites, and in some cases that’s true. In others, like Boehmeria ‘Glow Light’, it wasn’t true. We just took this photo of one of our
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Spring is an amazing time in the woodland garden. We begin the final two days of our spring open nursery and garden with a few photos of some of our seasonal favorites. We hope you can join us this weekend to see these amazing plants in person, but if not, here are some recently
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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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Like sci-fi zombies re-awakening, ferns in the garden are spring back to life. Nothing says spring quite like the presence of new fern fronds emerging…known as croziers. Below are several different fern images we’ve taken as they emerged this spring. The first is the bamboo fern, coniogramme. Lepisorus or ribbon ferns, with their long narrow
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Here’s a photo from our garden yesterday of one of the amazing wild gingers, Asarum maximum…a superb evergreen woodland perennial.
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Do you know beesia? Outside of the plant collector world, few people have heard of this obscure member of the Ranunculus family…first cousin to hellebores, thalictrum, and clematis. There are only two species, both native to moist woodland soils at high elevations in the Himalayas. Surprisingly, Beesia calthifolia thrives in our heat and humidity
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Among many flowers in the garden today are the native trout lilies, Erythronium rostratum (Ohio to Texas). This small woodland ephemeral perennial is amazing, both for its foliage and flowers. By May, it’s gone to sleep for the summer. We are growing these from seed, which should take 2-3 years to have flowering-size plants
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