Look what’s in full flower now in the winter garden!. This dazzling spring ephemeral, Cardamine quinquefolia, is just off the charts amazing for the light shade woodland garden. It has formed a stunning 3′ wide patch in four years in our Zone 7b garden. Hardiness is Zone 6a-8b.
Tag Archives: Woodland Garden
Skirt-lifting time in the woods
Adore us some acorus
Hit gold with Solomon’s Seal
Several of the Solomon’s Seals age gracefully, but we’re usually too busy writing catalog copy to get photos. This year, we happened to catch Polygonatum infundiflorum ‘Lemon Seoul’ all lit up in its fall fines.
Winter Gems for the Garden!
Hardy Lady Slipper Orchids!!
New, Hard-to-Find Sacred Lilies (rohdea) available
Boehmeria ‘Glow Light’
One of the most difficult parts of our job is to try and predict which plants will sell well. We’d like to think that our favorites would also be your favorites, and in some cases that’s true. In others, like Boehmeria ‘Glow Light’, it wasn’t true. We just took this photo of one of our favorite woodland perennials that’s unrivaled for brightening a shade garden all summer long. It’s easy to grow and hardy from zones 6a-9b. So, help us out…why didn’t enough folks buy this amazing plant to keep it in production?
Woodland Garden plants looking great
Carex ‘Silk Tassel’
We’ve been growing Carex ‘Silk Tassel’ for nearly three decades and it is one of our woodland ornamental grasses. The very narrow variegated leaves are an absolutely delightful texture, although it’s hard to photograph well. Here’s our latest attempt to capture it as the new growth emerges in the garden this week.