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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...

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Native 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,...

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Primroses 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...

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Epimediums, 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...

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European 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,...

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Longwood 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,...

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2013 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’,...

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2013 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’,...

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Pleasurable 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...

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Pleasurable 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...

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Winterthur 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...

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September 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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Top 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...

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Top 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...

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Hellebore 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...

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Letting 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,...

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What’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....

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What’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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