Last Thursday was opening day at one of my favorite local nurseries, Secret Garden Growers, You know you've arrived when you see the witch crossing sign... (pardon the bad photo taken from inside my car)...
Variegated Daphniphyllum
I want to clean out the pine needles and plant something in that cool slab. I forgot to ask if they had plans for it.
Lots of 'Spotty Dotty' (podophyllum)
Love the vibrant backdrop for the Schefflera delavayi.
That gunnera is wasting no time waking up and putting on some growth.
Aquilegia viridiflora Chocolate Soldier’
I bought one of these here last year that's up and blooming in my garden, but that didn't stop me from buying another on this visit.
Lathyrus vernus (spring vetch/perennial sweet pea), darn cute!
Everybody needs a rodgersia or two.
I thought I needed this euphorbia as well (Euphorbia polychroma 'Bonfire') but it doesn't need me. I've lost it more times than I can count.
OH MY GOD! More moss than foliage. I should have bought this! (I think it's a barberry?)
The SGG Yurt. I've never been inside.
Asarum caudatum will definitely cover some ground.
I quite like those flowers too. I recently posted a photo on Instagram of one of mine in flower and someone called it "ugliest flower in botany"... no!!!!
Rhododendron 'Tressa McMurry', how is it even possible that a rhododendron in a 4" pot is blooming?
Moving into the greenhouse now (technically not open to nursery visitors) and looking at these Aloiampelos striatula I'm reminded that mine COULD resprout from the woody base. Could. But will they?
Hardy-ish begonias. I've grown both of these but winter finally did them in.
More of that fantastic Cyrtomium macrophyllum I scored at Hortlandia. Evan grew these plants from spore.
Sophora prostrata 'Little Baby'. My three oldest plants are still bare after the winter cold. Fingers crossed they leaf out soon.
Marked as Abutilon 'David'.
Canna 'Cleopatra'
Schefflera delavayi babies! (maybe from my plant? Ann propagated a batch from seeds I gave SGG).
Arisaema ringens
Bletilla striata 'Shi-Ran'
Pyrrosia lingua 'Kei Kan', I believe.
I love that Pat (owner of Secret Garden Growers) shares my love of kinda obscure ferns.
Libertia some something. I love it, but it dies in my garden.
Finally I'll wrap this post with an obscenely large clematis bloom on a very small plant, Clematis 'Rooran' in a 4" pot. You go girl!
The day had been marked on my calendar for awhile, it was a good excuse to go for a drive (45 min to an hour from my house), see friends who work there (Ann and Evan) and of course a fine opportunity to ogle the plants...
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