March 2013 GBBD: Hellebores on Parade Again
My friend David Culp had this lovely bowl of hellebore flowers on his porch when I visited his garden Brandywine Cottage recently. This is an elegant way to display your hellebores and gives a feeling...
View ArticleNative Plants 2013
This photo is one of my favorite shots of my native woodland which has huge swathes of some of the native plants that are particularly good spreaders, including Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica,...
View ArticlePrimroses That Live
‘Belarina Nectarine’ double primrose . This weekend Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is holding its second open house sale of the season, and one of the featured plants is primroses. Primroses are a hard sell...
View ArticleEpimediums, My Collection
The 2013 Miniature Hosta Mail Order Catalogue, containing choice selections of miniatures for shipping all over the US, is now on my right sidebar here, and we are ready to ship. . Epimedium pinnatum...
View ArticleEuropean Wood Anemone, My Collection
The 2013 Miniature Hosta Mail Order Catalogue, containing choice selections of miniatures for shipping all over the US, is now on the right sidebar here, and we are ready to ship. If you are local,...
View ArticleLongwood Gardens Part 5: Tulips and Natives
The 2013 Miniature Hosta Mail Order Catalogue, containing choice selections of miniatures for shipping all over the US, is now on the right sidebar here, and we are ready to ship. If you are local,...
View Article2013 New Miniature and Small Hostas
My latest container for mini hostas is an old handymans’s toolbox that was hanging around. In it are clockwise from upper left: ‘Thumbelina’, ‘Teaspoon’, dwarf Solomon’s seal, sedum, ‘Rock Prince’,...
View Article2013 Larger Hostas
Although miniature hostas are versatile, cute, and fun, it is the larger hostas that provide the bold statement and beautiful colors in shade gardens. Here clockwise from top: ‘Blue Angel’,...
View ArticlePleasurable Pairings for Early Summer Part 1
‘Westerland’ rose and Lagerstroemia ‘Delta Jazz’, a new crapemyrtle with beautiful burgundy leaves and pink flowers which I am trialing for the Southern Living Plant Collection. . One of the most...
View ArticlePleasurable Pairings for Early Summer Part 2
Indian pink, Spigelia marilandica, is one of the highlights of my garden in June. I would like to have a field of this wonderful, hummingbird-attracting native. . My post Pleasurable Pairings for...
View ArticleWinterthur Part 1: Late Winter 2013
In early March, the courtyard behind the house at Winterthur is completely filled with snow crocus, C. tomasinianus. It is worth visiting in late winter just to see this sight. . Each year I choose an...
View ArticleSeptember 2013 GBBD
Hardy begonias and ‘Paradise Joyce’ hosta I have been very busy getting the nursery ready for the fall season but took a few hours off to get this Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day post done. First though, I...
View ArticleThe Un-Common Snowdrop
Nursery News: The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is posted here, and we are taking orders. All snowdrops are great...
View ArticleThe Sochi Snowdrop
Nursery News: The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is posted here, and we are taking orders now for mail order and pick up at...
View ArticleTop 25 Snowdrop Plants Part One
Nursery News: The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is posted here, and we are taking orders now for mail order and pick up at...
View ArticleTop 25 Snowdrop Plants Part Two
Nursery News: Charles Cresson’s Winter Interest Plants Seminar is available for registration here. The Friday February 21 session has a few spaces left and the Monday Februaury 24 session has plenty...
View ArticleHellebore Leaves
Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens’ first sale of the year, our Hellebore Extravaganza, will be Saturday, March 29, from 10 am to 3 pm. To get all the details, please sign up for our customer email...
View ArticleLetting Go Part 2: Naturalizing Bulbs
Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens’ second sale of the year featuring early spring-blooming shade plants and hellebores is scheduled for Saturday, April 12, 10 am to 3 pm. To get all the details,...
View ArticleWhat’s Blooming in Early Fall?
Hosta ‘Blueberry Cobbler’ is beautiful when it blooms in September. As I said in my last post featuring two glorious fall gardens, there is no area of Carolyn’s Shade Gardens planted to peak now....
View ArticleWhat’s Blooming in Mid-Fall?
‘Limelight’ hydrangea, native blue wood aster, and native brown-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia triloba) shine through October. For me, fall has three seasons, early, middle, and late, and they do not conform to...
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