We are infatuated with the dwarf Greek daphne, Daphne jasminea, that lights up our dryland rock garden with small, white, star-shaped flowers in May and June. For us, flowering also continues sporadically throughout the summer. Our five year old specimen has reached 8″ tall x 20″ wide.
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We’ve just wrapped up another successful Southeastern Plant Symposium with nearly 250 attendees in-person and online. With a dozen amazing speakers, spanning the globe, everyone left with a greatly expanded knowledge, new friendships, and hopefully, something from the rare plant auction that featured over 590 amazing plants. Proceeds from the auction are split between the
We are just wrapping up the early spring lily season in the garden, and here are few we captured images of this year. Lilium formosanum var. pricei ‘Hehuan’ is a dwarf form of the Taiwan lily, from our 2008 expedition, collected at 9,300′. It blooms two months before the much taller, lowland form Lilium formosanum
Our oldest clumps of Heuchera ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ are still looking great after nine years in the garden. Most modern coral bells have a garden life expectancy about as long as an unwatered and unplanted cell pack of annuals. We’re thrilled to have such amazing clones, such as this Walters Gardens introduction, to share.
Looking great in the garden is month is Hosta ‘Tears in Heaven’, a unique-looking favorite, from the breeding work of plantsman Hans Hansen, of Walters Gardens. While hostas with long, pointed leaves never sell nearly as well as those with round leaves, we find them much more interesting to use in the garden, from a
This simple combination of Geranium ‘Azure Rush’ and Tradescantia pallida is one that repeats several places in the garden. The geranium flowers from spring to frost, and the Tradescantia, which is perennial here, also looks good throughout the growing season. While this combination echoes colors, it contrasts form and texture.
I’ve got a new favorite blue conifer, in a climate where most blue conifers fear to tread. Cedrus atlantica ‘Horstmann’ is a 1970’s selection from Germany’s Horstmann’s Nursery, that forms a very compact specimen. Our seven year old plant has reached 7′ tall x 5′ wide, without any type of opressive control. Typical blue Atlas
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Just finishing it’s flowering for the year is our specimen of Cylindropuntia kleinii. This North American native to the Chihuahuan desert regions of Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, forms a 5′ tall, gnarly specimen, composed of long, jointed sections, that break away as they become attached to anything that tries to pass to near. Many
Almost two years ago, when I first saw photos of Zantedeschia ‘Frozen Queen’, I was overly skeptical that this was the result of A-I or Photoshop. To find out for sure, I ordered a few for the garden to see for myself. Well, after over a year in the ground, below are the plants in
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On a recent Saturday morning, I took a little time away from the garden, to visit a couple of local natural areas, prompted in part by our Facilites Manager, Nathan Rahrig, who had located a colony of 3’+ tall Arisaema pusillum nearby. The first stop was a set of narrow streams, carved through a mild
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