Juniper Level Botanic Garden

On a 2020 trip to the UK, I purchased a plant labeled Acanthus spinosus ‘Ferguson’s Form’ from our friends at Cotswold Garden Flowers. In the six years since, it’s turned out to be one of the most stunning clones of bears breech we’ve ever seen. Below is a gar...

If you’ve studied plant migrations, you no doubt realize that many North American species, also have nearly identical Asian counterparts. One such plant is our native sensitive fern, Onoclea sensibilis. In the US, it can be found throughout most of the Eastern ...

Only a couple of weeks remain, before we kick off the 2026 Southeastern Plant Symposium in Raleigh, NC. For our 8th year, we celebrate two milestone birthdays, the 50th anniversary of the JC Raulston Arboretum, along with the 40th anniversary of Juniper Level Botanic Garden. Both Mark Weathington and I will be giving presentations on the history of both gardens. We’ve had one...

One of our treasured maidenhair ferns in the garden is our spore-grown selection, Adiantum aethiopicum ‘Barrington Queen’. This, and our previous introduction, Adiantum ‘Barrington Belle’, were grown from a 2017 David Denton spore coll...

On a recent trip to visit our friends at Garden Treasures, we found our collection of Acer palmatum cultivars expanding once again…the nature of our OCD affliction. The diversity of the genus is quite amazing, as our collection at JLBG now tops 90 dif...