The Crevice Garden is bursting with color for our Spring Open Nursery and Gardens. Below are a few images from this week. We hope you come, meet the rock stars in person, and explore what fascinating plants await in the world of rock gardening, May 10-12, 2024. The post Get addicted to Crack Gardening at our Upcoming Open Nursery and Garden appeared first on Juniper Level Botanic Garden ..read more

Our amazing 2023 introduction of Dianthus ‘Razzlepop’ is just glowing in the garden this week. We love the tight compact blue foliage, that’s smothered with these nearly fluorescent flowers…one of our favorite Hans Hansen creations. Dianthus ‘Razzlepop’ The post Exploding Razzlepop appeared first on Juniper Level Botanic Garden ..read more

We were fortunate to catch this beautiful colony of our native Florida predatory stink bugs (Euthyrhynchus floridanus), just hatching on a damaged maple in the garden. While most folks hate the idea of stink bugs, these natives (NC to Florida) are actually beneficial in the garden. They assist by consuming a variety of damaging beetles, weevils, and caterpillars. Most insects are badly in need of a better PR agent, who could work to change their common name from Florida predatory stink bugs to something more publicly palatable, like Red-bottomed Florida friendly bugs. Sadly, many folks spray f ..read more

Our bog garden is aglow in late April, thanks to our clump of Sarracenia x moorei ‘Red Saucers’. This JLBG seedling arose from a cross of Sarracenia leucophylla ‘Hurricane Creek White’ and Sarracenia flava. This seedling selection puts on one of the best floral displays we’ve seen from any of the native pitcher plants. We should have this ready to share through Plant Delights by 2026. Sarracenia x moorei ‘Red Saucers’ The post Dining in the Garden with Red Saucers appeared first on Juniper Level Botanic Garden ..read more

Below are a few of our favorite ornamental onions for the early spring season…all flowering now. There’s something about alliums in the garden that elicit smiles when they are in flower, compared to tears when we chop up their kin. Most early spring alliums are more bulbous, while many of the later, summer-flowering alliums grow instead from perennial crowns. The large flowered onions pictured here, originally came from our friends at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs. Allium ‘Ambassador’ is one of the taller alliums we grow. Because the foliage on these begins to go dormant while they are coming into f ..read more

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The word “primrose” is from the medieval Latin prima rosa, literally the “first rose”. Perhaps it was a time when “rose” was used in a more general way. We all know that a primrose is not a rose not even by any other name, but we certainly think of it as an early spring flower. The primroses of European origin do succeed in gardens in the southeast if they are either strains that were developed for garden performance (as opposed to pot culture) such as the excellent Belarina series or old-garden pass-along plants that have stood the test of time, such as Primula ‘Dale Henderson’. From the othe ..read more

This spring marked our first flowering of a spectacular form of Helicodiceros muscivorus (pig butt arum) from the Spanish island of Majorca. This was one of the last collections from plantsman Alan Galloway before he passed. This species typically has flesh-colored flowers, but we love this new red-spathe clone that we’ve named Helicodiceros ‘Razorback’. Helicodiceros muscivorus ‘Razorback’ The post Red Pigs Butt appeared first on Juniper Level Botanic Garden ..read more

Looking quite golden this week is this combination of Trillium discolor, surrounded by a patch of Chrysogonum repens…two great perennials, that both happen to be Southeastern US natives. Trillium discolor, Chrysogonum repens The post Striking Spring Gold appeared first on Juniper Level Botanic Garden ..read more

Only six weeks remain before the amazing Southeastern Plant Symposium and Rare Plant Auction kicks off in Raleigh. This annual symposium for plant nerds takes place on June 7 and 8 at the North Raleigh Hilton in Raleigh, NC. The symposium, a collaboration between the JC Raulston Arboretum and Juniper Level Botanic Garden, brings together some of the world’s top plant speakers for twelve talks in two days of total ornamental plant immersion. The symposium alternates between a woody plant focus and a perennial plants focus, and 2024 is the year of perennials. Not only will you be able to hear i ..read more