Juniper Level Botanic Garden

One of our favorite native perennial groundcovers is the Georgia Pancake Bluestar, discovered by our friend Bob McCartney, retired of Woodlanders Nursery. We purchased our first plant from Woodlanders in 2001, before it even had a name, which we quickly remedied. Twenty five years later, we still think this is one of the finest perennial introductions in the last quarter cent...

We’ve always loved false plum yews of the Asian genus, Cephalotaxus, which contains only eight species. In garden and nurseries, you’re most likely to see selections of the species, Cephalotaxus harrgintonia (or harringtonii), especially dwarf or columnar forms. Many years ago, I was enchanted by this wonderful form of the straight species, Ceph...

For those, who watched both in person, and on-line, when our Amorphophallus titanum flowered last August, we thought we’d share it in its less impressive stage. After flowering last August, it remained completely dormant until mid-July...

The Souto rock/bog garden combination, that we installed in 2023, has begun to fill in nicely. If you haven’t seen it recently, our

Amorphophallus krausii ‘Son of La’ is a giant, winter hardy selection of the non-offsetting Amorphophallus krausii, from an Alan Galloway collection, on our 2005 expedition, when it was discovered in the province of Son La, Vietnam, near ...